It's bananas! If the claim these folks make is "time spent struggling through a default config on an unfamiliar machine" > "time saved by crafting an workshop

It's bananas! If the claim these folks make is "time spent struggling through a default config on an unfamiliar machine" > "time saved by crafting an workshop to fit your mind", then we are not the same. (Probably, the dividing line here is time spent coding vs time spent managing infra.)