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Never got into the tiling wm craze, but since I found out about Gnome's PaperWM thought it was much better than tiled and traditional wms and wanted something like that for KDE. Even was thinking about doing it by myself until one day learned someone else did it and much better than I would
If you like using the mouse alot and you're more comfortable with clicking than yeah there's really no point in using a tiler.
If you're someone like me who doesn't like using a mouse and are used to VIM or Emacs for navigation then tilers make sense. In many cases using a keyboard is faster than using a mouse. OR you're a weirdo in the middle then you'd use Krohnkite on KDE.
I disagree with this. I use keyboard shortcuts for moving my tiles and switching desktops but otherwise I use the mouse. I have found great value in using a tiler, not having to manage windows or having them overlap is awesome.