What I want is a wrapper for River and Waybar, similar to dwl-guile and dtao-guile. I have this obsession with being a language puritan - I try to avoid contamination of multiple languages/markup file in my project. I don’t want my configuration repo to be polluted by any text or JSON file, other than scheme itself. Since I don’t have the time to work on creating a similar patch, and also because I don’t want to bother with configuration for the time-being because I want to focus on learning software dev, I chose to configure a debloated GNOME configuration with some GNOME apps removed, and other fancy features disabled.
Also, I’m more of a workspace person. I like to label workspaces, and open at most only three apps per workspace. I appreciate the dynamic workspace that’s in GNOME. River’s workspace wasn’t actually a workspace. It was some weird concept about view toggling, and I didn’t like that.