Improving Lame Oreo Lockscreen?

[consultant]

Now that my Floatify Lockscreen doesn't work with Oreo, I'm wondering if there's anything out there that is worth installing, that isn't a clucky band-aid solution, to give more control over and features for the lockscreen? It seems this is one area that Google, with it's immense software development resources, has really missed the mark on. The Lockscreen is both ugly, minimally function, and has a laughable tiny set of rudimentary setting options.

 

[Hadron]

The problem is that the way Oreo works means that it breaks the old lockscreen replacement apps (and nobody in their right mind wants 2 lockscreens). I don't think Google care about lockscreens at all, to be honest: their current idea seems to be that people use ambient displays (which are actually quite limited in what they do display). Personally I've given up on both and just unlock the phone (the FP scanner is fast enough that it's generally unlocked by the time it's in my line of sight anyway).

However, a quick Google search turned up this XDA article. I've never tried the app in question, but it claims to work on Oreo. I note that it's from the same developer as Floatify.