Oh, so did I. It was a homebrew'ed 6502 machine. But we early adopters and hackers were "hobbyists" for the most part. The era of the Personal Computer as an object of the masses didn't really take off until the mid-1980's with the Macintosh and a couple years later with Windows 2.0.
Prior to that, we hobbyists didn't count our thousands of hours slaving over machine code and hex-digit displays as "wasted". We were learning and experimenting.
It wasn't until the late 1980's that large numbers of otherwise sane individuals started losing tons of productivity at work and home to the curse of trying to make a personal computer work as expected.
We had two Macintoshes in our office in the mid-80’s that were basically unused while we were all using our IBM’S and Compaqs.
“It wasn’t until the late 1980’s that large numbers of otherwise sane individuals started losing tons of productivity at work and home to the curse of trying to make a personal computer work as expected”
They actually worked as expected.