Yeah, outside of simple use cases, I mainly interact with the clojure REPL by evaluating forms directly from my editor. It’s about being able to incrementally build something while having it running and updated as you go.

I also tend to often just reload changed namespaces and resetting the (component/mount/integrant based) application too. Or letting shadow-cljs live reload my clojurescript. But having the REPL directly accessible is still super useful.