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.
Also the Prism Launcher automatically separates new instances into separate folders (So that you don’t accidentally open a world with missing/extra mods). The vanilla launcher can do it to, but you have to manually change the folder location.