Because if you are into minimalism there’s no eye candy. I use river as well and decided to ditch the status bar. There’s literally nothing to see on my screen except for my terminal. It might have neovim but again, i went super stock on my neovim config: https://erock-git-dotfiles.pgs.sh/tree/main/item/dot_config/nvim/init.lua.html

There’s really nothing to see

Sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What entity has dropped nukes on an entire population? Who is the current president of the US? Insane take.