I did it weekly in days of w95-98, but when I began to work with clients circa 2004, I stopped. Because it was always more beneficial to restore a broken system

I did it weekly in days of w95-98, but when I began to work with clients circa 2004, I stopped. Because it was always more beneficial to restore a broken system rather than reinstalling it and losing all of the apps and settings. Clients could even ask for a reinstall, only to call me few days later remembering that thing they forgot to mention/re-check. Reinstalling must be the last option, when an OS turns FUBAR. Today my OS installations live through generations of HDD/SSD drives, and I always have a quarterly or so full-system backup in case my system drive fails. All other important data is in the cloud (steam, gitlab, email, bitwarden, etc) so it's a matter of re-download. My latest reinstall was when I built a completely new PC in 2018, when I decided to build everything from scratch consciously, just for tech fun (I probably had to do that anyway, because windows doesn't like massive hardware changes). Before 2018, another system lived on a laptop, which I gifted to my friend. It has around 6 years of install time today, iirc. I think I make a fresh macOS with drive format install monthly, I'm kind of obsessed... With all respect, it looks like a sign of an anxiety-related issue, like niche OCD of some sort. I'd try to understand the driving feeling and deal with it on a subjective level.