Can you really discount and avoid a whole project because of that statement?

yes

Every other launcher on F-droid is one of these “minimalist” launchers. And they’re completely useless insofar as your phone ceases to be boring and minimalist as soon as you open an app. We’re addicted to apps not home screens.

I think we’ve found Brendan Eich’s Lemmy account

Nice work! I appreciate the effort put in. I’m going to download it now and have a look.

I’ll give this another try. Last time I tried it, it was unusably slow.

I don’t know yet, I’m going to keep track of developments around this and see what the community comes up with. I refuse to be bent over by tech giants.

I tried this before and it was complete shit, everything took forever to load.

Not that I’m dismissing the service, other people may have no issues with it, but personally it was almost unusable for me. I’d still encourage other people to try it and hopefully they’ll have a better time.