Simple things with rather tremendous quality-of-life impact.

Make yout terminal useful. And lean. And fast.

I've been using Salt mainly for local environment configuration - dotfile and config management. After almost 5 years of use I started to notice that Arch Linux Salt package is becoming less and less stable. I assume that the cause was overall project complexity resulted in higher maintenance burden.

Manual install becomes boring after a while. Especially when creating multiple virtual machines.

Sometimes you just have to change some things, even if they work correctly.