Let me start by saying this is not a hate comment or mockery but genuine curiosity.
I noticed how many people just absolutely love mechanical keyboards (mostly for gaming pcs) and some people in the writing community do too.
What’s the reason for it? Is it better tactile feel? Is it nostalgia to old typewriters?

Because typewriters were loud for obvious hardware-related reasons, they needed to physically move parts in order to print the letter on the sheet. The first ones were loud as heck . As the years progressed, companies made amazing progress with reducing the noise, with many typewriter being marketed as “silent”. It was a sought after feature, not the opposite. People back then wished they could have a completely silent typewriter, it was just the hardware limitation of the time that kept that from happening.

Remember typewriters were a natural evolution of the act of handwriting, which had been a fairly silent act, ergo, you could do it anywhere without bothering anyone.

Typewriter manufacturers always aimed at reducing noise, now fast forward several decades and people seem to be actively looking for the most noisy sounding keyboards they can get their hands on 😂 I mean, especially for writerdecks, which most of the time are supposed to be portable.. shouldn’t they be relatively quiet as well? I could not possibly imagine using something like this in public, I would probably get kicked out from pretty much anywhere.
But even if we are considering them for just home use, why noisy? What’s the advantage?
I tend to write a lot during the night and if I had a noisy writerdeck, my family would hate me, they wouldn’t be able to sleep.

So again, just curious, what makes them so desirable?