Agree, but there's also the psychological impact of having spent over 200 smackers on this thing and then letting it go unused lol
That's the key, a physical object is much more easily made part of a devs identity.
Projecting a hacker image has become very fashion based. e.g., some devs love their clickity-clackity keyboards with LEDs, others have those all-blacks ones with nothing on the keys.
This only works if you can get people to spend over $200, which is the part I'm skeptical of.
But who knows, maybe I'm overestimating people's intelligence.