Visually you may not notice the difference, but the air flowing around you at 200m/s as you cycle up mnt Thor will.

It's for racing cyclists. There's nothing more aero than legs and face shaved with sports shaving cream.

The ds grazed genz too

My dude this post is the feature request. It's how summit operates.

You are under immense crushing pressure, forcing you into a suboptimal state of existence you would never take on within a more relaxed environment?

Degenerate uncle.

Quark-Gluon plasma gramps

There are a lot of binary packages now, and explicit bin versions of big ones like firefox or the kernel. Without using those an update after some months may take half a day. With them, even a weak laptop only takes a few minutes.

Gentoo doesn't want to push you into some compiled utopia, it's offering you the option of customizing or taking control where needed.
You can have your system use binary packages but then set one packet to source, download the source, modify it, write a patch, and have a package with a completely custom sourcecode modification that you can easily keep updating as normal at the cost of it now taking longer due to compiling from source.

"You know when you struggle to get a sofa through a doorway?"
Barber: "say no more"

know that I