Gentoorian here as well, cheers.

I use it since ~20 years on most of my notebooks/PCs/root servers mainly because of its flexibility and I often end up wanting to use the very latest versions of software (e.g. ZFS, kernels, etc...) without struggling as most things are available from the official central package repository. I admit that updating/upgrading the OS is a pain from the time perspective (because of the long compilation times). As a programmer/developer the experience is as well fantastic as most of the libraries, compilers, interpreters, etc are very well integrated or easily installable.

I did try to use a few times Linux Arch, but I never fully liked its AUR.

For VMs I basically use always either Debian or Linux Mint with Xfce.

For gaming, mediacenter-PC and webradio-miniPC I use Linux Mint with Xfce.

It's funny that whenever I need assistance with some task (fixing a problem, doing something weird, ...) and I mention to Google Gemini something like "I'm using Gentoo Linux blahblah" then often Gemini starts its reply with something like "Ah, a picky Gentoorian, I see - then let's do this the complicated way..." :o)