What is Reddit's opinion of ap15 Launcher?

There is actually a launcher similar to your idea that already exists , but instead of icons it used words and letters (basically only text) and your most used apps have larger text font compared to the other ones. It's called AP15 and here's the Link for it

My home screen is a vertically scrolling, alphabetized word cloud where the more frequently used apps are bigger and easier to touch

Edit: it's called ap15 Launcher

You're looking for the ap15 launcher.

You can set all the text to white, same size, alphabetical, you can even rename any of the text you want. Here's what I've done with it.

Maintained how? there's only so much one cam do on that concept. ap15 hasn't been updated in months either because it does exactly what it needs to.

Oggi ho scoperto (e installato) un launcher Android che vi farà passare la voglia di aprire le applicazioni compulsivamente e che fa anche una bella figura.

How about this ? It's iconless, minimal, and ticks most of your needs , I think !! Used to be my daily driver until I found Niagara launcher

Also try this. It lets you hide icons and stuff and keep things simple

Ap15

ap15

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aurhe.ap15