The new blog post on font ligatures is published! https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/font-ligatures-for-your-code-editor-and-terminal
It's a such a personal taste, some folks love it some hate it.
I'm enjoying WezTerm as a daily driver; it comes with beautiful JetBrains Mono where ligatures can be configured, too:
https://wezterm.org/config/fonts.html
https://wezterm.org/config/font-shaping.html#advanced-font-shaping-options
I tried it for a bit but couldn't get used to it.
Yes, it's definitely not something that will be appealing to everybody, it's something you have to try and see if you like.