The original fvwm was my first window manager in Linux back in 1995, I was not a fan of the evolution into fvwm-95, though.
By then I was already into other window managers.
I liked window maker and enlightenment, both of a which appeared a bit later.
IIRC fvwm95 was not meant as a next-gen fvwm, but as a customization of the existing fvwm desktop.