Good admin experience for privileged users with a dashboard maybe coming out from the side, a drupal off canvas admin drawer

https://www.drupal.org/project/responsive_menu

https://www.drupal.org/blog/how-to-use-drupal-8s-off-canvas-dialog-in-your-modules

OK nothing about the drawer but really simple and refreshing after looking at the Total Control panels approach!

https://www.drupal.org/project/banana_dashboard

And a classic dashboard approach for Drupal 8/9:

https://www.drupal.org/project/dashboards

I’m tired. The cool things that someone would’ve added to Drupal if it weren’t apparently a dying ecosystem just aren’t there. Lot’s of cool stuff is, to be sure, just not as much if we were still growing. Pity.