This is kinda why I play variant chess. Something a bit different. I've been playing chess since I was 10, it's the only productive thing I did through my little cunt years. Kinda weird really that a disruptive and angry child would take up chess as a hobby but there you go. But after like 25 years of playing chess and hitting a rating wall of just under 2000 I kinda got a bit bored of the same openings, it took so long to get to an interesting position and often I was already lost by that time and just didn't realise it. So that's why I like these games with novelty pieces. It's freshened chess up for me.