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To answer your question, if I'm on the CLI, I'm doing work. Slack helps with team cohesion but is a focus killer. I wouldn't be interested.
Fly fishing has similar cheap gear at box stores, yet still has a healthy eco-system of specialty shops.
As a side note, it was much harder to learn to stop doing it, than to start.
The other option is to buy s $3 padlock at your hardware store and risk TSA breaking out the bolt cutters. Cheaper than a beer in coach.
I expect the case law around this sort of thing will continue to evolve.
Documentation issues are also a great place to start and can have you digging in the code to truly understand what an API or method are suppose to do.