> That seems like a pretty low bar, is there any window manager that doesn’t have that sort of basic configurability?

I heard rumours that Win 11 was makin' folks jump through hoops to move the taskbar anywhere other than left or right along the bottom. Personally, I ain't used Windows since Win 7; (The last really decent / tolerable Windows), and even back then I was already dual-booting with Linux.

Not jumping through hoops, you just can't put it at the sides anymore