Linux installs have gotten so quick and painless over the past decade or so. Usually just following a GUI, waiting like 5 minutes for the install, and suddenly you’re booted into a fresh desktop.

After you get decently experienced with Linux, you're tempted to move to a "difficult-to-setup" distro for fun and more flexibility. Nothing wrong with normie distros, but these advanced distros are really good - you can strip down "bloat", pick your own init system, your own login daemon as well as your own job scheduler.