FWIW, Chimera Linux has a similar bent and it provides basically all the desktop environments you'd typically want - if you don't want a GTK based desktop like Pantheon you can run KDE, LXQt, whatever.
Pantheon is awesome, just a little restrictive for my tastes. I ran e for like 3-4 years back in the late-teens and it did everything I wanted at that time.
Chimera uses the FreeBSD userland, is very snappy, etc. Small dev team but I haven't seen any issues in the ~2 years I've been paying attention to it. No systemd.
These to me are the two standout Linux distros of the moment re: slop.
I'm running Alpine these days and they are kind of wishy-washy on the slop thing it seems. There's a lot of inertia for me to move to something else right now and if I do move I may leave Linux altogether perhaps.
Grunkle Moose
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