I would like to have ceni in the devuan packages. Ceni can be found
here (the amd_64 version):
http://packages.siduction.org/?Repositories:extra_amd64

In the practical use, i think it's a robust and very easy to use
ncurses based tool. It's advantage is, once it is set up (practically
it uses wpasupplicant and ifupdown) it provides that a once set
connection comes up very early on boot, so that many (desktop) apps
which presume a connection, they have it already.

Also wicd does this, but it's later and slower in bringing up the
connection.

May be someone more skilled can have a look at it and judge, if it's
worth the pain.

Btw, ceni does also roam.

Cheers.