Sway can pretty much replace awesome nowadays, so I'd encourage giving it a shot. You can even script around the way it does multi-monitor workspaces to make th

Sway can pretty much replace awesome nowadays, so I'd encourage giving it a shot. You can even script around the way it does multi-monitor workspaces to make them work similarly to awesome (just bind your switching shortcuts to a script that asks sway with swaymsg which monitor is focused). Finding a solution to this is actually what allowed me to abandon X11 and awesome for good.