This video from Protesilaos Stavrou provides a good overview of the Emacs packages: Vertico, Marginalia, Consult, Orderless, Embark. The post also provides the basic configuration for these packages.

Starting with BetterTouchTool 4.615 you can manage your menubar’s status items via BTT.

I have installed the example preset and it works pretty well. This also means one less app needed.