Yes, it's a strange effect. I initially dismissed wobbly windows and the desktop cube as very gimmicky bling, but it really did make a huge difference to the feeling of the desktop.
It’s funny how many things go like that. I agree on wobbly windows for floating window managers, though I use a tiling window manager now. In a completely different space, I found similar with expression-orientation in Rust: coming from languages like Python, I initially presumed it to be a gimmick that just let you omit the `return` keyword, but quickly found it was bound up in a better way of thinking about data flow and grasping what’s going on (much like wobbly windows), and now statement-oriented languages are just galling (but I still use JavaScript regularly).
