Okay, maybe you're kind of deliberately understating that a little?
Don't get me wrong, they seem to be arguing relatively respectfully so I don't think they deserve the downvotes, but claiming the downvotes are for individuality is a stretch lol
Your writeup on spotizer seems to imply that they can just steal your credentials, is that correct? Not that it should matter much if you're doing this to stop with spotify afterwards, but still feels icky...
In people's defence: they can't know about things other than looks at first sight right? Redirecting the conversation might be exactly what they want too, so take it as an invitation to talk about your kid 😄
Who's going to say what is to be reset in a "full new install" and what is kept? I don't think the line is as clear as you think.
For example, the disk space. Maybe one partition was made to be a flat amount, and another gets what's left, maybe it's a percentage split. Who's to say?
What if the rest of the hardware is significantly different? Maybe your old amd setup needed no third party drivers, but your new nvidia setup is broken without the third party drivers?
I don't think copying the username / password is a good idea either, ever, by the way.
I think the gray area between cloning and just doing a fresh install without copying anything is a little too personal (and/or hardware-specific) to really manage well this way.
In university we had c++ and python courses alongside each other, and I currently get paid to write python.
I honestly believe my knowledge of c++ (and of course the rest of the courses which went deeper into cpu architectures and data structures and whatnot) makes me a better python programmer, because of the deeper understanding of what goes on under the hood.
Are you in the US? Move to a country which actually respects bikes (and weed) like the Netherlands and it might tbh.
Disclaimer: I'm not from there but I am from a nearby European country, and I know there's always a shortage of bike mechanics, enough so that the courses get subsidised.
Especially if you use "bread" loosely