I'm also a big fan of the ergo dox ez, and I'm pleased with it.
I don't know how many hours I spent to get my neo 2.0 layout running. Neo 2.0 is a very nice “German” layout I have been using for ages: https://neo-layout.org/ (and before that something similar called de-ergo).
The biggest win for me is to have all the brackets on the home row for coding.