I’ve tried looking for launchers that have this feature, but have yet to see it mentioned anywhere.
I despise how the focus of development for at least the past decade has been form over function. I like information-dense displays, and Google has gotten everybody to waste so much screen real estate on looks (never mind other crappy UI decisions). My home screen widget layout is the one big thing keeping me on Nova.
Yes, it has some rough edges. I remember a few months back icons would be different sizes depending on how you added them to the home screen, but that’s been fixed.
I agree that I’d rather it be open source, but I haven’t found one that can handle folders within app icons like Nova, and this is the closest one. The price is reasonable and the updates are regular, so I’ll stay here for a while. It definitely has promise.