I've had this debate with my wife before. She absolutely pummels her MB Pro from 2012. Keys are breaking, she has a gazillion windows open (including vmware since she runs an old quickbooks on windows), desktop completely covered in photos of family/kids. I look at how she 'works' and I think at first 'wow, what a mess'. But then it's clear it's totally just a lower rung tool for her business - she is not in the tech space.

For anyone who doesn't program or create all day on a screen, it's hard for them to empathize. But all these things are real to me. Knocking 30s off a build can knock off 10-30 mins of wait time a day. It all adds up. On a scale from 1 - 10 (10 being an ultra maxed out everything machine) I usually hover around 7-8. I know after all these years that my concentration and execution are the most important thing I have and I don't need workspace things to get in the way of that.

Sadly, headphones are a part of that now. ;-(