My friend had this awful, long living room with a weird bump-out where the fireplace was... like a room designed by someone who hated furniture. She tried for weeks to figure out where her sectional should go. Finally she used one of those AI planners as a joke, just to see what dumb thing it would say. It told her to angle the whole thing in the center of the room, facing the fireplace nook instead of the TV wall. She thought it looked insane in the picture but tried it anyway... and honestly it completely fixed the flow of the whole space. She was kinda mad that it worked so well.

Ugh, this makes me think of my family's big holiday food fights. My aunt swears by canned beans for her chili and says they taste fine, but my mom will spend all day doing dry ones because she says the texture is better. They get so worked up about it every year. Honestly I just buy whatever's on sale that week and call it good.