All three of my bottom buttons were cooked on the update. Rebooting didn’t fix. I went into safe mode, buttons worked fine. Rebooted back to normal mode and they still work fine. No idea what that’s as about…

I’d suggest starting with that - boot into safe mode and see if it looks any better, then reboot back to normal mode and see if it sticks.

Do you mean the ability to backup and restore your launcher config? If so, it doesn’t get more minimal and awesome than T-UI

You’ll want the F-Droid version as it is the most complete. It hasn’t seen an update in ages, but it really doesn’t need one. It’s also all open-source, so you could always download the code from GitHub and do whatever you want to it