[aarroyoc]

I use Niri at home and PaperWM at work but I use most apps maximized. The thing that I like is that I can move between windows in a WASD like shortcut, more convenient that doing Alt-Tab. However vertical split is also very easy to do in Niri and it's sometimes very convenient.

[broken-kebab]

But keyboard-driven workflow is not a property of tiling WMs. You can re-configure window switching in many WMs to be whatever you like