feel free to list other window managers you’ve used.
I have been happy with bspwm, but considering trying something else. I love its simplicity and immense customizability. I like that it is shell scriptable, but it is not a deal breaker feature for me.
I like how the binary split model makes any custom partition possible.
Sway is more of an i3 clone. I used to use xmonad, but recently I have been using river with wayland. It has similar defaults to xmonad, also being a dwm clone