There's shelly which i've seen some people gush over (and it's included on fresh installs today) but i'd rather have clunky octopi myself. At least I have learned how to use it.

I think people want a good graphical representation of an app store page with screenshots or something, but that's just not much of a priority for some reason in parts of linux land. AUR doesn't even have screenshots and the arch package guidelines don't even mention anything like it. Normal people are going to want this kind of experience though.