As someone who's used EXWM exclusively for over a year: Getting it up and running is very quick, finding the workflow you want can take a while - it depends on how familiar you already are with Emacs.

For example you might initially keep using tools like dmenu to launch applications, and over time move to using things like ivy/counsel for that instead. My window management (inside of emacs) habits also changed a lot.

If it's of interest, my emacs configuration is here: https://github.com/tazjin/emacs.d

Most of the EXWM specific stuff is in `init/nixos.el`.

My sentiment will be considered very ‘n00b’ by StumpWM and EXWM connoisseurs, but give i3 a go and see if you like the general idea. It’s generally considered the most foolproof tiling WM. You’ll also need a menu bar and a lock screen which are likely separate i3-* packages. I think I was up and running over the course of a leisurely Sunday afternoon, including changing a few keybindings, and getting everything documented and reproducible in my dot files.

If your distribution packages StumpWM, it just works. I can use it very happily with zero configuration, although I do change the font.

It's not like you really have do anything but download with your package manager and add it to your .xinitrc or xsession files if you just want a vanilla experience.