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If you are a power user, setting things up yourself has real advantage. When something goes wrong, I set it up, so I know where it is and how to work with it.

Anything that 'just works' has some magic behind the scenes, and that can go wrong. When it does, you don't have a clue. For most people, that's fine - they'll wait for the person curating the distro to fix it. For a power user like me, I'd like to be able to go in myself and do so.

For what it's worth, I've heard the same things said about cars. A lot of enthusiasts dislike modern cars because - despite being much more reliable and efficient, they are much more complex and hard to tinker with. If you know all about your car, you might be better off with something you can control, if you don't, you prefer something that 'just works'.