Honestly it's the first thing I install on Gnome. It's just annoying that it's not on by default and I don't understand what the devs have against it. I use the Tailscale, Nextcloud, ProtonVPN and Solaar indicators.
I could understand if they "rethought" how indicators work, but why make everyone jump through the hoop of installing an extension? (At least that is how it is on Arch and NixOS, Ubuntu may be different).
Other than this, I absolutely love Gnome, I feel 0 need to tweak (other than before mentioned), some nicer tiling would be nice thought ;) Also: Requiring an App Indicator seems a bit harsh on the more minimal DEs. Are there any apps that are like a window but with your indicators or something?