This assumes that current Gnome is somehow bad for power users. I do consider myself a power user and I really like Gnome, even after having tried a fair share

This assumes that current Gnome is somehow bad for power users. I do consider myself a power user and I really like Gnome, even after having tried a fair share of WMs starting from.. well probably all of the ones one might now, ranging from tiling ones (dwm, i3/sway, but even obscure ones like musca wm, which I really liked (it is a tiling wm that will place programs into a predetermined frame, instead of dynamically re-layouting the screen) to more traditional desktops. After a point I came to the realization that you likely won’t tile 10 windows on a screen, having split views and many virtual desktops is more than enough. And especially on a laptop 3 finger swipes to switch between desktops is unbeatably good.