Love to see this amount of thought being put into something that nearly everyone encounters on a day to day basis.

I greatly miss using tiling window managers, like i3, but I don't miss having to fiddle with all the little temperamental settings to do things as common as set up my wifi.

Having something like this as a default would be a great middle ground.

If you use gnome, I can recommend Pop-Shell

https://github.com/pop-os/shell