I use st as well. Honestly, the main reason is that I can configure it to use ligatures, whereas the few that offer ligature support aren't terminals that I pre

I use st as well. Honestly, the main reason is that I can configure it to use ligatures, whereas the few that offer ligature support aren't terminals that I prefer, and the terminals I like better don't offer ligature support. So, st it is. Otherwise, it's not the best with regard to overall capabilities (though that is because of my limited ability to write my own original patches for it, I suppose), but it's not the worst either. I don't especially recommend it either, but I like it a lot for my own use. People who don't know how to patch C on Linux are probably not really going to want to use it with the default config.