Fonts like Fira Code are attractive for the same reason animated cursors are attractive - they give people a way to add fun little baubles to their working envi

Fonts like Fira Code are attractive for the same reason animated cursors are attractive - they give people a way to add fun little baubles to their working environment. No, they don't benefit your productivity and in many cases make it worse (e.g. confusing ligatures or buggy editor plugins) but decorations are by definition not of utility.