Yeah, I think people differ a lot over this. E.g. there are lots of people who seem to want as much info in their shell prompts as possible, and all sort of system resources monitors on display all the time. I'm not an extremist on this -- not having current dir, current branch and an indicator of unstaged changes in my shell prompt would make me uncomfortable -- but I share your suspicion that there's an inverse correlation between wanting unnecessary context on view and experience/skill as a software engineer.