I also used a more minimalist self made WM based on reading dwm's source: https://github.com/serprex/nobox

The "I don't want to spend time configuring my desktop environment" argument misses the point with these things. Everyone had to learn how to use various interfaces. It's easiest for me to learn something whose code I can mess around with

As per their own definition, "suckless" != "does not suck", but rather "software that sucks less".

All this time I thought it meant software that you didn't have to suck as much.

I removed some of the stuff I don't use because the compiler complained about it after I removed the mappings and I was sufficiently bored that day :-) Being bored was actually the reason I was even looking at dwm in the first place, and somewhat to my own surprise it seems to have stuck.

I don't like dealing with multiple things on my screen (from the WM, tmux panes, Vim windows, whatnot) and like focusing on one thing, so I've had a pretty simple and straightforward "full screen all the things" workflow for years (well before I used dwm) which doesn't demand much from my WM. I mostly use tags/workspaces, tmux windows, and Vim tabs to switch between things.

The point of simple software is that it's malleable.