I think it's a balance just like anything else. In high school, nothing was safe from my tinkering and everything was extremely fragile but also extremely tail

I think it's a balance just like anything else. In high school, nothing was safe from my tinkering and everything was extremely fragile but also extremely tailored to fit my usage. In college, I found myself practicing a sort of configuration asceticism where all I needed to be productive was standard bash and vim. However, now that I'm a full-time software engineer I've found that by investing some time into configuration, I've optimized my common-case workflows tremendously and am much more productive as a result of it. I think I'm still tremendously comfortable with just the bare necessities, and I agree that having this sort of habit makes context switching a lot easier, especially on foreign machines where you can't make many assumptions about what people have. I think the decision point is centered on how much you find yourself context switching between setups. Personally, I'm only ever on one or two