Got #gnome setup this weekend. Giving it #Forge a shot which is a new, simple tilling window manager:
https://github.com/forge-ext/forge
I've tried material-shell before but it didn't work well for me for whatever reason and Forge while more simple feels more stable.
For further customization I used #wmctrl which allows more scripting options and for drop down terminal I used #trdrop. For system control I can't get away from brilliant #rofi and it's ecosystem (#rofimoji, #greenclip).