I guess it is better to spend some little time cleaning up your existing install than doing a fresh one. From what you describe, you just have some leftover configuration files you can delete.

Fresh installs is needed when you messed up your current install with broken packages or missing ones or missing configuration and you just don’t know how to clean it up.

So as long as you can clean up your install, just clean it.

While the news is interesting, it is not about technology at all. Just because Starbucks has an app does not make this technology related news.