The dock stops being a problem once you set it to automatically hide and find ways to use the mouse less. Shortcat is another tool that helped improve my mouseless workflow, and is kinda of like a vimium for the whole system but with fuzzy search: https://shortcat.app
It became really annoying to press tab 5 times just to get to the app I need.
If you’re interested in technical writings, I recently wrote about my journey to creating rcmd here: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/window-switcher-app-store/
The dock stops being a problem once you set it to automatically hide and find ways to use the mouse less. Shortcat is another tool that helped improve my mouseless workflow, and is kinda of like a vimium for the whole system but with fuzzy search: https://shortcat.app