Backlog bankruptcy, has anyone actually declared it?

[David74]

My unplayed games list has passed one hundred and fifty and I have started to feel it looking at me. Every sale adds three more, every free monthly game adds another, and meanwhile I have played the same comfort game for four hundred hours

I keep hearing about backlog bankruptcy, where you formally forgive yourself, delete the list, and only buy games you will play this week. It sounds liberating and also slightly like admitting defeat. There is a version of me that still believes I will one day play that 90 hour epic from 2017

Has anyone actually gone through with it? Did the buying habits change afterwards or did the pile just start growing again immediately? And someone please defend the backlog itself, there must be a case for the pile