Because other people sleepwalk through their lives on easy mode, totally unskilled in anything. Creating nothing, inventing nothing, contributing nothing, learning nothing, understanding nothing. They expect to be catered to, waited on hand and foot by some corporate machine, and as soon as they experience any adversity they tap out.
That's why I write with a fountain pen. That's why I carry a balisong knife. That's why I drive stick shift. That's why I ride motorcycles. Because these things are harder than the alternative and require some modicum of dedication, and occasionally require you to think.
Plus they're neat, and anachronistic. Or possibly neat because they're anachronistic.