There are lots of good FOSS options.
I would strongly recommend checking this site for the trackers in an app if you’re at all concerned about privacy. Links to each app’s exodus privacy report is also at the end of the table linked above.
FYI, Nova has been owned by a data mining company for many years and it is worth moving away from even if you think it is good enough now and doesn’t need updates.
I don’t know what I want out of a launcher but every launcher never does quite do it for me, currently I am using aio and have been for awhile its been nice but somehow I keep thinking something else should be interesting too but it never does seem to be.
For a time before aio I was using niagara. Maybe its just grass is greener or something