There is a really really wide gap between sticking with default settings and using suckless tools. I use a lot of tools that I significantly customize- i3wm, t

There is a really really wide gap between sticking with default settings and using suckless tools. I use a lot of tools that I significantly customize- i3wm, tmux, vim, fish, fzf, etc. I'm certainly no stranger to editing and maintaining configs, but when I've tried the suckless tools in the past they turn everything right up to 11. My strategy, and this is the same as a few other people I've seen comment here, is to choose a tool that has sane defaults, and only customize to eliminate pain points. If it requires significant configuration just to get it viable, than it's not going to work for me.