Personally, I think that thing thing that prevents many people from using tilers has more to do with “fear of the unknown” than anything else.
I can say, It took me more than 20 years of using Linux before I became a fan of tilers. The major reasons which prevented/ hindered my moves were in my head, mostly. I saw:
- Tilers as belonging to the domain of ‘the linux master race’
- A GUI style that was to my eyes, “user hostile”; especially with its de-emphasis on the mouse (I like mice….
) - Tiling Window Managers seem to offer a reliance/ emphasis on terminal/ command line use.
- Almost all tilers, offer initial ‘blank screen’ setups.
The installation is done, you login, and voilá the screen is ’empty’. - Very little is ‘preset’ by the tiling desktop. Tilers emphasize a ‘roll your own’ style. What do you mean you don’t do this for me??!?!
- And probably most importantly, I saw I’d have to figure out how I actually wanted to use my desktop and then I had to, in large part, build it. The Microsoft /Apple paradigm of having laptops look & work mostly like Windows or Mac was in my comfort zone ~ thus I was perfectly happy with xfce. BTW, I do still like xfce, although I rarely use it these days.
After quite a bit of experimentation… here is what I think now (I know you were waiting with baited breath for this). The above list, to my mind, provides some of the major strengths of tilers. I discovered, I like doing all those things; I find them entertaining and technically challenging. 
As a person who is nearer to 70 than 60, by a lot, I enjoy sharing what I have learned in my transition tilers. None of this is about right or wrong, easy or difficult. It is ‘rather’ about the adventure and discovery.
Enjoy the adventure.
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