I feel like a lot of the performance and stability complaints were absolutely true in the first ~2 years of Gnome shell, but when I gave it another shot in 2018

I feel like a lot of the performance and stability complaints were absolutely true in the first ~2 years of Gnome shell, but when I gave it another shot in 2018 on a computer with an AMD CPU and GPU, it ran basically flawlessly for me. I definitely agree that everything being said, it matters less and less which environment you're actually using. I used to have fun with XMonad but I realized that I was spending 90% of my time in tmux, and about 10% of the time within a browser, so all one of these "optimized" windowing environments offered me was nerd-points. I felt like Gnome Shell got out of my way pretty quickly without it being too hard to pick up.