I don’t suppose that I’m terribly unique. While not new to genealogy, using genealogical software was very new. (My initial exposure to genealogy software in the mid-'80s was so dismaying that it was 20 years before I’d try again.) All my initial data data came from generations of hardcopy. There was no GEDCOM to be imported. And the thought of contaminating a fresh database with someone else’s transcription errors was abhorrent.
Frankly, I never intended to go beyond untangling 1 poorly composed booklet from 1924. 44,485 people later, I still haven’t imported someone else’s data via GEDCOM. (Although there have a few vCards, lots of transcriptions & a fair amount of cut&paste one data element at a time.) Place data harmonization & map tiles are my biggest import use. (But I’d dearly love the ability to import the missing collateral pedigree twigs of how cousins are related from FamilySearch, WikiTree and other services.)
From threads read online, there’s a fairly significant segment of the community that is thoroughly disgusted with the cut&paste mentality of online world-tree mangling. And these people are migrating to software where they have obsessively complete control. Their trees are manually entered.
Another market segment are those students I mentioned before. Importing data is a traceable form of plagiarism that would net them a zero on the homework.
So simplifying meticulous data entry would seem to be a worthy goal.