Yantra launcher for weirdos who like the feeling of cli. I used to love tui-launcher but it was abandoned. I tried switching back to normal launchers but even minimal search-based ones feel clunky. It's the only kind I've tried that felt qualitatively different

I like InkOS, minimalist, in an epaper kinda way. Just dont like the notification module but I disable it. And I use Snowbell as the font, love it.

unLancher, baby. Just...look at it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jkuester.unlauncher/

Sleek. Simple. Sexy. Salubrious.

I do it to disable things in the launcher that ships with my phone. In many versions of android you can't get rid of that dumb search bar wiget or that even worse experiences page if you swipe left from home. I don't ever use them, but they get in my way, it's my phone I want them gone.

As a side note I also dislike circle icons, but I dislike even more that they change the shape with every major release of android.

Aio launcher has changed my world

Well you switch when you feel like something could be better, like for me, I personally got OCD so I dont like a grid of apps, hence I use those minimal launchers that don't have icons and just a search bar. I know evey app I have installed and delete any if I dont see a use for it in the near future, but that's just me.

Currently using fokus launcher

If you prefer a minimalist experience, Victoria launcher is the more customizable app with KISS bwing more minimal, while MetroWin launcher provides a super customizable Windows-Phone-like experience

I use μLauncher, quite minimal and text focused which is great for my clicks case

I agree with yoiu. People's obsession with customizing their UI to be JUST SO seems really weird to me, whether it's Linux or Android. I'm utilitarian at heart and for sure there are some UIs that work better for some things than others, but overall I find most of the discussion in this space motivated by control-freakery over practicailty, like people would rather spend time researching, installing and customizing their UI than actually doing anything with it.

And that's fine. People are allowed to have their hobbies, but I, like you, wondered what was wrong with me that I didn't care about it until I realized there is nothing wrong with me at all, it's just not something i have interest in.

Though I will admit I did get into that WIndows power user UI editor thing that let you snap windows to a predetermined grid for a little bit, but that's when I was spending a lot of time transferring information between 3 different apps....