Ask HN: Registrar with highly technical staff

I have been with one of the oldest registrars for a couple decades that is now basically just a help desk. I have tried a few US registrars and I am finding the same pattern. Fancy UI, limited DNS functionality and maybe one or two semi technical people buried deep under call centers. I just use registrars to point to my name servers. If there was a way I could edit the root servers directly, I would. Thus far I have tried name.com, network solutions (now web.com), namecheap, godaddy. I heard mixed reviews of Gandhi but have not tried them yet.

I am looking for a few registrars that are "engineers for engineers", if such a thing exists. Are there perhaps any EU based registrars that maybe I have not heard of that have a highly technical staff?