There are several WMs which were specifically developed from the perspective of being minimal and getting out of the way (Awesome WM comes to mind). One of the

There are several WMs which were specifically developed from the perspective of being minimal and getting out of the way (Awesome WM comes to mind). One of the main causes behind the bashing is that a perfectly stable Gnome 2 (which was a more mainstream/"full featured" WM) was butchered to create something which took out a lot of functionality people _actually_ use. Obviously your use case, being a much simpler subset of what people typically do with their WMs, would fit in with most of the WMs so maybe the hoopla surprises you.