Comment by groby_b

Yes, a good chunk do. (You haven't lived till you heard a contractor wax for 30 minutes about why he prefers what hammer for what task ;)

Of course, by far not all. But the thing that truly differentiates computing from most other jobs isn't that people are indifferent to their tools and want work to end when they're home. That's the common case.

What's different is that software engineering seems to be the only job where its practitioners actively resent the tools of their trade, because those tools inevitably bleed from their work life into their private life.