No I don't have to turn my body, but you do occasionally miss things that pop up in the UI at the far distances, but I find the extra screen space well worth it for the immersion. FYI - I'm using the G9 predecessor the CHG9, which is a fairly significant downgrade, but same 5120x1440 resolution, 120/144Hz refresh. Less backlight zones (a laughably small amount). With everything maxed out and no DLSS, I get ~50-60FPS unless I am swinging the camera around, then it can drop considerably like down into the 30s. Turning on DLSS balanced, I can get high 70s, but I have the frame rate capped at 60. The frame rate cap is another convenience thing. My office is an average sized room, but with the CRG9, my work laptop, and gaming rig, printer, network equipment (10G switch, router, cable modem, UPS) my office will often already be 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the house. Running the GPU at full throttle to squeeze out the last 5% performance is so much worse. Tolerable during the winter where I have the windows open to Chicago's sub-freezing temps outside, but completely unbearable during the summer to the point I have to leave the door open (which brings a host of problems with the pets always needing attention) and fans changing the air in the room as quickly as possible.
As for why do I use a headset or desktop 2.1, it is because my gaming PC is in my office, and my HT is in the HT room. For most of the games I play, I don't find the benefit of > 2.1 sound more important than the PITA it is to use a keyboard/mouse in my HT. But that could be the games I play, which is typically strategy, RPG, 4x, or racing games, and the game makers don't usually have a high budget for creating ATMOS sound. My gaming rig also doubles during work hours as a web browser for researching stuff, so I would need to lug it back and forth, or invest in some remote gaming gear (fiber optic DP/USB cables).
My brother on the other hand (isn't a programmer, and doesn't work from home), does all his gaming exclusively in his HT. For the most part he plays a different genre of games though that he uses a controller for it all, and that works well for him so I hear.
Here is some pictures of my gaming rig after I put it together:
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