A great number of people care a great deal about creaking plastic and the other design atrocities you mentioned. Why do you think Apple is one of a handful of the most valuable brands in the world, while Dell laptops gather dust in Staples basements? "Developer experience"? Lol
It's the aesthetically stunted and clueless nerds on HN who don't know the name of their hairstyle and aren't aware of the length or color of their shorts who are the outliers, not you