If you don’t really need one, they are ungainly, awkward, and impractical as all get out. However, if you DO need one, nothing else will work quite as well.
If you weren’t a recurrent poster, I would think think this was a trolling post, lol.
Yes, tiling window managers are for a specific type of person. Based on your post, you are not IT. They are quite efficient, orderly, and allow for such a utopia for window management. They do however, require the investment for said utopia.
EDIT: I also have a 1 ton pickup
I’m in this category.
I’ve tried some sometimes. Not my glass of milk.
PS. not have any use for a pickup truck either by the way
No, not a developer but played with Hyprland and very much enjoyed how “tinker-able” it was. That being said, I also had XFCE installed for when I just needed something more “conventional”. I can totally see the value in it, but I can also see that it won’t be for everyone :).
I’d love to have a pickup truck. They’re handy for so many things. But that’s a want, not a need, and not having one keeps family and friends from asking if they can borrow it to move their stuff.
In a similar vein, no one wants to borrow my Sway desktop. And I like it that way. 
Same here. I have no interest at in tiling window managers. I’ve tried, I just don’t see any benefit at all.
I can relate to that. 
Truly personal computer.
I don’t need a tilling wm but after some time I certainly appreciate it and I have a hard time switching back.
My only problem are programs that require multiple windows to function. I cannot imagine using it at work because some abominations like SAP require about 6 windows open before I get to the one piece of information I need. That would be a total mess on tilling WM.
Not everything needs to be a dedicated tile in Sway, and I would assume other WMs are like this too. You can have “floating” windows, which are more like a conventional DE where the window is whatever size you want it to be and they can overlap each other…or you can open windows in tabs–kind of like tabs in a browser, but any application can be in a tab. There is also a “scratchpad” function, which is basically like minimizing a window–it goes away but doesn’t actually close, so you can bring it back later if you want.
You can have any combination of these window types, and can switch between them pretty easily too since all of the different behaviors can be configured with keybindings.
I’m not saying WMs are the best or anything; in general I would agree with others in this thread that they seem to work well for some folks, and not so well for others.
For me, plasma tiling is sufficient for my needs.
I can share my experience as both DE and WM user.
It really depends on what you want to achieve.
Tiling WM’s are best suited if you’re a heavy terminal user. The environment is very much DIY, if anything breaks it is your duty to fix it. At the same time, I can’t really complain – it’s a lot of fun and still very educational as you get to know how desktop environment is built… basically building one yourself.
But sometimes, I need my computer to simply function and that’s why I then rely on a DE (now specifically Xfce) to provide me a GUI.
While we’re at it I don’t get the point of virtual desktops or activities or tabs in a browser (i’d rather use the taskbar with individual instances) or this or that lol… 
Each to their own workflow I guess!
I tried some tiling WM and understood I didn’t need them, BSPWM was nice, it support floating windows.
I’m fine fine with launching my apps at a specific position, with a specific dimension, in a specific workspace (thanks to wmctrl) when my Xfce session start.
Taking pride in your computer being so totally customized as to be unusable by anyone else is a huge part of the appeal of tiling WMs in my opinion, lol. I certainly relish the fact that me and my 9-yo daughter are the only people capable of making my desktop machine do anything.
Wow. Creating and then training your own Tech Support is pretty extreme. But it’s definitely forward-planning for the future.
Not a software developer here, but an avid user of i3-wm for years now.
Can’t imagine ever going back to one of those GUI environments. They look like cartoons, and force you to grab the mouse far more then really necessary.
Same reason I use neovim as much as possible. Once you get over the initial hump of a good tiling manager and keyboard control, there’s no going back.
Old dog. New tricks. YMMV.