I'm not going to relate to all your points, but:To make the fonts look right you don't need to install 3rd party stuff. Just change the hinting to Slight in gnome-tweak-tool. I think Slight hinting should be the default. Without it, fonts looks fuzzy.
---Elad Alfassa.
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