Re: Nothing new...
W2K than it does to the defaults.
i3wm - and it's not the predominant desktop styling that bothers me, it's their limitations in important areas and excesses of the irrelevant (from my perspective).
i3wm isn't perfect either, but it fits better than most and is less work that XMonad (or at least less likely to waste an entire day griped by the impulse to tweak).
Monocultures are bad, predominculture are OK, and GitHub was that - there were alternatives, but most were happy with the Hub.