To the purists rocking linux from scratch systems: how was it?

how was your experience from installation to day to day management? what was your use case to build such system over just choosing a distro.

the apps and the updating it. is it a hassle?

is it a viable or reasonable option as a daily driver. i just wanted to get some insights about it.

what do you like or dont like about it. the tradeoffs you were willing to accept, etc.