[12ian34]

I'm not trying to convince you, but I thought I'd just add my thoughts as an actual i3 user to some of your statements to provide a more balanced view to the audience.

> it can feel quite overwhelming as you need to visualize the tree in your head

I find it strange that the author finds it overwhelming here. You don't need to visualise the tree in your head - it's literally there in front of you, visually, with clear UX cues and four very simple keyboard shortcuts. and that's if you even want to bother with the tree anyway - I need to nest windows perhaps once a month.

> I mean if it takes 3000 lines of code to make your friggin window manager work then you're doing it wrong.

This is exaggeration. 5 years down the line, my i3 config is 280 lines, perhaps 70% of which are default. Additionally, it is not your place to tell others they're doing something wrong. Perhaps spending n hours writing 3000 lines of i3 code actually saved someone 10n time over 1 year. How would you know?

> I happen to like overlapping windows

You can achieve this with i3 floating windows. I use them sometimes, works very well.