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Ha, they're just showing off their hacker side for the screenshot, plus terminals resize nicely. Tiling window managers work well for most apps. The only GUI issues I've had are some pop-up windows being tiled instead of floating, but that's an easy fix. They're not for everyone, but they work great with GUI apps.
Yup. Main issues I've had are GIMP (seriously, what's with that floating toolbar) and weird pop-ups in browsers.
I forget why I switched away from them because I was annoyed at games messing stuff up, but it really wasn't that bad. I currently don't use it because my kids use my computer and I'm not interested in teaching them my shortcuts.
There is an option to display all widgets into a single window.