That's sort of like asking a motorbike enthusiast why they don't just drive a car instead.
There's a big difference in the input scheme between PC and consoles. Playing with a controller might not be satisfying for someone used to keyboard and mouse. The latter also provides a higher skill ceiling for competitive play.
The lower end hardware used in consoles also does not allow for high framerates and high resolution monitors, while with PC gaming one can get as much performance as they're willing to pay for.
You were clearly banned for the comment where you used offensive slurs in reference to the author of a previously discussed blog post. I was happy to report the comment.
If only Linux offered a half decent kernel API instead of that dumpster fire that is POSIX. Even so, for anything not involving graphical user interfaces I somewhat agree with you.
That looks like an allocating container. Probably the most useful property of linked lists and other node based data structures is the ability to make them intrusive and to avoid dynamic allocation. In some domains you just don't have a runtime allocator available to you, so this library would be useless.
You also don't have to remember this when using defer. That's the point of defer - fire and forget.