For vanilla minecraft, the default launcher from Mojang themselves is fine but lacks support for mods (since you have to download those seperately alongside the mods you want to add). However, if you are serious about modding the game: Prism, ATLauncher, Curse Forge are preferred since those have the loaders (Forge, Fabric) integrated.
Been a while since I used it, but in retrospect, it felt basic but functional for what it does. The “better” ones, I’d defend they are because they are tinkered to the uses the user wants/needs.