I prefer btop over more traditional resource monitor CLI/TUIs as it handles affordances in a more thoughtful and intuitive way (to me, at least - it's definitely a personal preference!). I think it's worth a test drive even just to explore a different sort of interaction mechanism for TUIs.
I've written up some thoughts on the design of btop here: https://abstractnonsense.xyz/micro-blog/2025-04-26-btop-of-y...