[jaegrqualm]

It offers more customization than Arch and the like, and it allows you to fix bugs you might find annoying more quickly than maintainers might. This is in addition to some nebulous performance gains from optimizing the builds you compile yourself.

The problem has always been that while you had all this choice, the one choice you didn't have was to just use regular old binary packages for the things you didn't have to customize. This complaint has finally culminated in TFA.