I really started to turn negative toward it (especially efnet/dalnet) when I started noticing that toxic users would basically create profiles of other users to use for trolling, blackmail or whatever else was on their imagination at the time. I dealt with a lot of user drama as an ircop on a large network. I'm in a few community slacks and discords nowadays but I'm not a frequent user there either. Between the insular cliques and the fact that I can look up archives of 20-25 year old messages I wrote on there because you never know who or where someone is writing logs really turned me off as I got older. I started using IRC around age, I dunno, 10-12 (30s now), lots of efnet then freenode, at one point I was an ircop until our childish antics got our server desynced. This is what I have loaded (they are all on the weechat scripts site, just google the filename and edit.py I am using a fair number of plugins though. And I'll do some work on packaging it up so it's easy to take the bits that people like. I will write a blog post about how to achieve my setup for linux users since there seems to have been mild interest. There are also Quake-like terminal emulators that drop down on hotkey- these are also quite common and can make it really easy to just check what's going on when you have a spare second. I have a highlight buffer script which keeps a history of all the times I get mentioned, and weechat supports libnotify so if your desktop is able to get pop-ups then you will be notified on highlight. What you're requesting is actually the normal way most of the people I talk to use IRC.
I think this is a fair ask, unfortunately I made my setup for me and it's not exactly designed to be packaged/reused, but I linked my configs (in tarball format) here:
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