It does take some time to get things setup the way you want it, indeed. I'd argue that it takes pretty much the same amount of time as coming up with a nice WM configuration for i3, bspwm, you name it. You can think of wmutils as a WM with a shell-based configuration file, thus providing all the composability power of the shell.

Having a simple, working setup is fairly easy, especially if you use a simple WM like glazier or swm to handle the mouse pointer.
Then you can use this sxhkdrc as a starting point:


Then, when you need a specific behavior, you can make a script that does what you want, and bind it to a key. You will construct you workflow piece by piece, over the time.