Same situation here! I was a vertical tab hater for quite a while but I’m really liking Zen’s UI so far

“Critical thinking skills only count if they’re MY critical thinking skills” do they not see the irony?

The new Futo Keyboard is phenomenal. All the features of Google keyboard/swiftkey but completely local and open source with on-device speech to text if you use voice typing (with models you can swap out yourself if you want).

Just make sure to download the latest pre-release version as it fixes a bunch of bugs and adds missing stuff compared to the ‘stable’ release.