This is the way.
ToNIX
I'm a big fan of fish personally.
Try Neo Store, I think it's the best frontend to f-droid.
Yes, this fixed it for me!
Kvaesitso is really good, but I keep coming back to Kiss. Even if you put your most used apps on the bottom of the apps drawer (instead of the default, on top), they're not as easily accessible compared to Kiss.
On Kiss, the history/most used apps are easily accessible with one hand, without needing to move it.
You can add multiple tag to apps (all my games are tagged "game", all my Lemmy apps are tagged "lemmy"). You can then search by tags, just like regular searches.
Another +1 for KISS, it's such an amazing launcher. I'm actually surprised to see it mentionned so much in this thread.
I have my 5 most used app on top of the search bar and my most used apps (that get automatically sorted by usage) readily accessible. The search feature + tags is so powerful, there's no need to scroll through the apps anymore when looking for something.
Organic Maps is so nice, thank you for all your hard work 🥰.
CudaText for text editing/programming
MPV for playing videos
7-zip
Firefox + uBlock Origin + Bitwarden