I am slowly coming around to the idea of desk mics, like you I detest the idea of it hanging in my peripheral vision on the desk or monitor arms etc...
Even at the higher end of closed back headphones, there is a still a decent bit of noise leak.
I've Had V-Moda mic in the past, as well as Sennheiser and Beyerdynamic headsets with boom mics.
It usually isn't a problem with the relatively low volumes in a meeting, but any other time the noise leak is enough to get reliably picked up on recordings etc...
Some people get a bit weirded out about the multiple IDE situation (mostly folks whose current day to day is VS Code with extensions).
Usually that goes away when you get them to try some of the IDEs, the experience is second to none (as far as IDEs that work extremely well out of the box go).
The amount of times I've got praised for writing neat C# code that was Resharper doing its magic :P
Although to be fair it is not like Windows in general supports HDR well for desktop use anyway, SDR colours are way too DIM like brightness is at 25%