I was reading this and thinking about it too — sounds like author wants a tiling WM but with a friendlier UX?

I honestly don't get why they ignore existing options due to configs. Give it a try, maybe it won't be _that_ bad.

I think the author was saying that the UX has to be good for it to gain wide (non developer) adoption.

Most of the non developers I know don't want to write prose, let alone a .ini file