I agree, I just have phases. Sometimes I really love tinkering. But I when I got a new computer, I already had to setup so many things, I just wasn't into fiddling with i3 at that time.
Why haven’t you just transferred your config? I’ve got a new laptop, rsynced my entire system, updated some things here and there, and that was it.
Resolution changed, GPU changed and I was running X11 on the old system, it was time for Wayland