Before this phone (Pixel 6) I used either Nova or Action for a long long time.

lawnchair, stopped using it after buying a Samsung tho, i really like the oneui home.
love the ability to rearrange and organize the app list as well as the homescreen.
lacks customization options tho...

Lawnchair launcher, its simpler than pocp launcher, and I can change icon pack of individual app.

Do the OEM launchers count?

In that case, One UI Home

Before launcher is my favorite minimalist launcher. It's very simple and easy to use

indistractable

SmartLauncher, here! I love the way it categorizes my apps for me. I like to have a few frequently used apps on my homepage with everything else tucked neatly away in my app drawer... Unfortunately most other launchers I've used alphabetize your apps all together, which I hate. If I feel like playing a game but I'm not sure which one I swipe to my Games page and just peruse them, for example.

Evie launcher. It's dead now, but I love it

Marshmallow Launcher.

I got annoyed with how HTC and especially Samsung did their UI, and switched to something that looked familiar and the second feature I looked for was the option to lock the icons.

It's the best using your own launcher when you switch phone your desktop just looks the same.

Pie launcher from f-droid, before I used KISS, but it's too slow for me. Pie is more minimalistic, APK size is literally 150KiB and minimum android version is 2.3

Minimalist

https://kerala.party/post/67594

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.execbit.aiolauncher