I try not to screw with working infrastructure, so it can become invisible to me. I've been using X11 for 24 years now. It's nice that it gained 3D capabilities, but I don't play games much, so the largest daily impact is that there are shadows under windows. Big whoop. Smooth video-playing is a much nicer feature, and we've had that for a decade.

I used fvwm, rxvt and netscape browser for years. Netscape mutated into Firefox. I added Chrome because it turns out that having two completely different browsers is an advantage for me. rxvt became rxvt-unicode. I might still be using fvwm, but XFCE has easier configuration when I move to a new machine, which happens often enough that I value it.

It will be nice when I can get the RX460 downstairs to drive the 4K monitor at 60Hz instead of 30Hz, but it's only going to be a minor improvement.

There are two kinds of idiots: the idiot who says "this is new, so it must be better" and the idiot who says "this is old, so it must be better". I try not to be either kind.