I'm 45 and I was excited to use them at first, but then as I was changing editors/terminal emulators, coding fonts, I couldn't always had them anyway, so I'm not attached to the idea.

I also prefer the lack of them, exactly because they apply to strings and comments too, where they are often undesired.

I write Clojure code most of the time, so maybe that's a deciding factor too...

Same. 47, only started using ligatures this year (in MonoLisa) and love em.

Approaching mid 30s here, been writing code in some form or another for a couple decades and I enjoy ligatures too.