you used to spend a day messing with your neovim config, feel self conscious, then get back to work
now people are spending weeks on some hyper customized coding agent workflow that definitely is worse than vanilla but they can talk about it like they're ahead of the game
i have lived in nyc for 13 years and still every time i see the brooklyn bridge from the subway i go woooooah i live in da greatest city in da world :)