I find projectile too chatty and distracting none thing I like about emacs is that I can focus on what I’m working on.
In what way do you find it too chatty? That hasn't been my experience, but I do use a pretty small subset of it. Are you using it on its own, or with helm/ivy?
It could have been hel or ivy I was seeing. I don’t like the mode line moving (growing the minibuffer) as I typically keep my eyes on part of the buffer and don’t want anything moving (or worse, obscuring where I’m looking)
Can you recommend any good articles or howtos on Forge and Projectile?
I switched from Emacs to VSCode but I still use Magit to do rebases.