I must come under the Venn diagram section for people who learned logic gates from a fairly early age, but would rather stab themself in the eye than spend many hours building anything out of them.
Yeah, I can see how they’re neat and I can get some enjoyment out of reinventing the wheels that our modern structures sit on top of, but most of the time, you’ll just do the same thing as before, but this time rather than 32 NAND gates, you’ll need 128. That gets old pretty quickly…