Maybe the goal isn’t to be able to use a word processor, but rather to have an aesthetic experience. In that sense, this is more akin to art than engineering.
I think it's an important aspect of computing, we can often forget the human experience element.
Seasoned creatives I talk to find their environment and the feel of it very important to their productivity, and I think it's the same for computing.
When coding in Windows the feel is that of fluorescent lit room in 2005, sitting next to a filing cabinet with a Cisco phone on my desk that rings every 15 minutes.
Coding in my personalized linux setup makes me feel like a netrunner in cyberpunk and I love that. I know I can achieve the same work in Windows, but the vibes are different.
