"Tools don't spark joy": is this a case of "each to their own" or is it a case of "owning the wrong tools"? There are a lot of people out there for whom tools s

"Tools don't spark joy": is this a case of "each to their own" or is it a case of "owning the wrong tools"? There are a lot of people out there for whom tools spark joy (ok, ok, I am one) and given that they provide a much-needed bit of control over your context/environment this seems reasonable. As for hiking equipment, I think you really need to be somewhere remarkable to be somewhere where kit, rather than understanding and attitude, really makes a difference. These places exist. But there are a lot of places you can enjoy just fine with little or no specialised stuff and I feel the kit fetishists waste a lot of energy and material while putting normal people off.