Some mods I tried out with an extra panel/bar.
This time trying out what iot would be like using tint2 as a taskbar (with "rofi" launcher) and here's what it looks like with Plank on top and the bar below:
and subsequently moving both bars around:
Hmmm, looks very XFCE4 desktop to me.
Where this one could be called Gnome like.
Naturally a lot stuff gets look better with Plank set to "intelihide" as its Tint2 that keeps track of time, battery and running apps.
That would be very hard to show without filming a desktop session and putting it up here, though.
Somehow it's all rather bland for my taste and all come too close to already existing desktops configurations by other distros (not counting the i3 DE of course).
To top off here's a shot of the IMO best configuration with a background that isn't too influential and shows the bar, dock and pager.
Agreeing with @IamElive here. 
Eventually I think I'd settle for only the simple Tint2 bar down below, complemented with the pager top right.
The Elive icon bottom left does NOT open a menu (why do things twice when it's already there with left-click) but opens "rofi" which is like "kupfer", only lighter, more versatile and easily modded. 
