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There was a time when wofi was clearly the best choice, I think some of the recommendations you found date back to that period. Since then, there have been a lot of competing projects with activity.
The one I recommend is Fuzzel, which is being actively maintained*. I compared a few here, although the post is getting dated now:
https://mark.stosberg.com/fuzzel-a-great-dmenu-and-rofi-altenrative-for-wayland/
I recommend checking out the git version of Fuzzel, which has a number of updates since the last release.
To the person who asked "What's there to maintain? It's a launcher". I subscribe to the Fuzzel issue tracker, and there is a queue of 20 or 30 features that people would like implemented. The reality is that Rofi accumulated a number of features over the years and often people are asking for more fuzzel features to implemented.
For example, one that's being considered now is native window switching. This is already possible with Fuzzel when used in combination with
swayr
, but it would be more convenient to have in one tool.*Fuzzel hasn't had a release recently, but there's a been a steady stream of features and fixes being added to it that I hope do get released soon!