Why use Awesome with floating windows?

Because it makes no sense to do tiling on a 12" screen, especially when you have keyboard shortcuts to activate/start applications

I prefer it still because it makes sense for every window to be maximized at startup. Also one layout that still makes sense is 1 window taking up 100% of the horizontal space and 95% of the vertical save for a small strip for a terminal.

I have - Meta + Z: Activate/iterate through terminal windows - Meta + W: Activate/iterate through browser windows

And when on a laptop I maybe do a split view 2-3 times a day for a short term. 95% of the time it's full sized windows which I switch between using keyboard shortcuts.

Same, same, and same.

I also just like the predictability of placing a window in a location and then the next time it spawns in the exact same place I last left it