[TheWiseOne]

I looked a while ago to find alternatives when some of these issues came up a while ago but I haven't found any other viable alternatives. I thought PeaZip might be a good option until finding out that it is also based on 7-Zip.

The one tool that I did find useful during this search though is https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI.

Apparently in Win10, Microsoft introduced a compact.exe commandline tool that transparently compresses files/folders. The above tool is a GUI for it. It's not a replacement for a proper archiver but it's a nice tool to compress things like games and other large programs that need to stay in place.