I want to love Zellij, but it eats up way too many keybindings. Yes, I know about mode lock, but then it's an extra two or four keypresses for everything I want to do.

I'd love Zellij with true tmux style keybindings - a single prefix key followed by a non-modified letter.

With zellij, you have to unlock, do your zellij command, then lock again.