Lawnchair was too bare bones for me. However, I was able to recreate 90%+ of my Nova setup with Neo.

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

Their other projects are in active development, so I wouldn't consider it to be abandoned.

I haven't had any issues besides the desktop being occasionally unresponsive. Same thing used to happen to me in Nova.

It's FOSS and suits my needs. But I can see why others may want to stay away from it.

https://github.com/NeoApplications

Thoughts and prayers

I got: "Verifying your device, please wait. Verification failed. Please try again" behind a vpn.

They can go eat a bag of dicks.

This is the right answer.

I use Neo Launcher. It's as close to Nova as I've been able to find. It hasn't been updated in years but I have had no issues with it.

Such an underrated show!!

I'm rewatching it for the third (fourth?) time and that episode on the fourth season gets to me every time.