Every so often, I’ll listen to this song, because it’s just piano + ambient sounds of public transport, and that takes me back to when I used to regularly take the train.

This one: https://open.audio/library/tracks/434296/

Wouldn’t particularly recommend it, though. 😅
You can tell that it’s an instrumental track with the vocals missing.

Here’s the song with vocals: https://www.joshwoodward.com/song/SymmetryandthePocketofAngels

I certainly like other songs from the guy better, though…

Personally, I found it worth playing around with. I cared less than I thought where I had to move my eyeballs to, once I didn’t have to make the decision anymore.

And automatic tiling can also enable workflows that just don’t make sense with manual tiling, for example master-stack-layout where basically one window takes up half the screen and the other windows share the other half, and then you swap out which one’s the big window as you see fit.

But I also wouldn’t have written all that, if I didn’t have a way that you can easily try it out: You can add automatic tiling into KDE Plasma via Kwinscripts. Personally, I’m using Krohnkite: https://store.kde.org/p/2144146
(Easiest to install by going through the System Settings…)