It's a TUI! It should be buzzing with numbers, packed with information, sparing with space and using every pixel possible. btop[1] is a great example imo — one of the best.
Like, hell, their examples have some *HUGE* buttons, starting with a calculator app that is all buttons - who is going to click on those? The calculator-with-buttons barely makes sense for desktop GUI apps (it was helpful back in the 80s when everyone had a physical calculator on their desk to help see the metaphor of the "virtual desktop" and it is arguably helpful on touch screen devices today for obvious reasons, but on a machine with a keyboard it is superfluous), let alone TUIs.
If you want to see a TUI that actually looks good (though a bit too much on the fancy side, but it doesn't pretend to be something it isn't) check btop:
https://github.com/ellie/atuin
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
But, in screen LunarVim and kakoune and other editors I was playing with were totally jacked. So I finally made the switch to tmux and oh-my-tmux.
htop is good, but check out btop. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
But this is the kind of software that I would want to keep using. Will btop keep being supported? Is btop going to be available in practically all distros I use? Even currently on Arch its only in the AUR.
Its also concerning there is btop[0] and bpytop[1]? I don't understand the difference.