dwm is not my daily driver, but it’s incredibly easy to be productive with the default config – it’s my go-to on my distro of choice (Fedora) on machines that aren’t both mine and intended for long-term use.

bspwm is somewhat more painful to install and configure in my experience (though also great once it’s set up), and afaik it does not have an easy config for the right-side window stack that is a key selling point of dwm to me.

I would say you use DWM for the suckless philosophy of it at this point, but it is historically important as one of the major early tiling window managers during this current wave that starting around the late naugties. deserves some recognition. It a bit later that bspwm was written, and now it has gained some traction in the "ricing" community. DWM was sort of a default choice for the minimal tiling WM. However, it wasn't for me, I used Subtle for its features and than XMonad for the Haskell experience.

Now I've actually settled into enjoying EXWM the most, feels very natural to have everything to at least appear to be inside emacs. My point is that there is no right tiling window manager.

Came here to say this. Bspwm is like Emacs - it's the basis to make your own window manager however you want it!

I think I'll forever be on bspwm <3

Definitely, I use bspwm for my work computer and its great.