[octokatt]

Not a professional, n=1, but I've successfully NaNoWriMo'd a few times and do regular amounts of creative writing for both D&D campaigns and for fun.

Absolutely freaking yes. Lots of mental drift. Swapping over to a new window on my MacBook happens enough that I have an app for shutting down that ability while working on writing. Ditto having a specialized app (Ulysses, then Obsidian) for writing with minimal buttons.

I can do without, but having the ability to close and lock those doors increases my writing speed by a decent chunk. As an engineer, if I can make myself more productive and writing more enjoyable with better tools, I'd rather do that.

That said, I absolutely have a friend who does his writing in Microsoft Word. He's already a bit of an odd duck, though, and is not an engineer.