Comment by anp

I’ve usually had this attitude in the past and for me it came from my background: I worked IT, help desk, PC repair, etc for years before I got into programming and none of those contexts allow customization. And then for a while I did infra work where I’d be ssh’d into a vanilla VM or container instance to debug a deployment issue. Even though I mostly work in my own bespoke environment now, I still try to stay fairly vanilla with my tools. It’s pretty nice to be able to reset my workstation every year to get a clean slate and know that it’ll only be a couple of hours of customization to get back to what I know.