Unfortunately, minimal desktop environments usually come with many hours of configuration files to write to make them nice or sometimes even just useful.
I don't think that's necessary, and I have been building a set of tools to prove that.
The first one is dewlock; a swaylock fork, that looks similar to what you would get on GNOME, MacOS, or Windows, with a fraction of the resources. You can of course customize it, but you don't have to.
I have a few more tools in the making, but I would like to start hearing what people think
Thanks for your attention