I'm a serial distro hopper on desktop. I've run tons of distros, my main laptop runs arch at the moment, used to be nix 2 years ago.

I get the benefits of gentoo, i do, the hardware specific optimizations are great if you wanna squeeze every last drop out of your CPU, and use flags are great, why use packages with features you don't need, it makes so much sense to me to just remove it.

Also openrc > systemd even if systemd is more widely used.

But I can't deal with the compile times, that's why I don't use Gentoo. Waiting HOURS for an update, while your CPU spikes at 100% is so utterly defeating to me.

I know you can use bins, but that defeats the point lol