@candletrading #dirvish was too big of a change from dired for me too. Hard to explain why, but probably because it tried to have one buffer to manage sessions rather than many.
That and also changing some defaults from dired that oddly messes with my workflow a lot.
I could never get the hang of plain-old #Dired in #Emacs. Thankfully, there's #Dirvish.
https://github.com/alexluigit/dirvish
Just wanted to remind everybody that this amazing package exists. Go install it right now.