LOL! But that’s another generalization, too.
My husband and I enjoy going there. Most of the furniture isn’t our style, but we’ve picked up some very useful items, and enjoy seeing how they style the little rooms, especially kitchens.
We do go there knowing what we want, though. I’m generally averse to huge stores where you have to walk too much, so we try to plan the trek ahead.
-JT
I think Ikea is a fantastic store. For ideas and materials. If you're handy, you can retrofit the stuff into designs of your own. Some of the stuff I bought cheap I couldn't make unless paying more for the raw materials. For example, enclosed hinges, screws, wheels, sliding shelf brackets, etc. are very expensive elsewhere but dirt cheap in the furniture at Ikea. Same for electric light components and metal items. Ikea is an excellent place for young people to get cheap components to experiment with. They can then build on those components with machine tools like a saw table, router, bandsaw etc. using solid wood and make great furniture that they can be proud of. Get your kids off video games and into carpentry, and they'll like Ikea.