There is also the enormous satisfaction in knowing that the lens you just used is possibly older than most people you know, cost a tiny fraction of the current asking price for a lot of modern plastic-bodied auto-focus whizz-bangs and will retain that price, if not increase in value, by the time you've finished with it
There's something just a little more "personal" when I settle down, frame my shot by actually repositioning the camera rather than using the zoom, physically choose my point of focus and depth of field etc. before pressing the button when the light's "just right". I "made" that picture, as they used to say, and no-one to blame but myself if it didn't work
YMMV