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Theoretically, atomic distros are 'more limited' because they do lock down certain directories. I don't usually see people who have any specific cases when this actually affects them though. You can still break your install messing around if you try really hard. You can still do development (but primarily in containers).
I think the 'learning' someone would do on a regular distro typically means how to solve common issues that atomic distros solve for you. Like a lot of people have trouble installing Nvidia drivers, which are just already present on the image with 0 extra steps. In your example, you probably had some missing or old drivers because Mint lags behind on updates.
I use a fedora atomic distro and sometimes it's annoying but that's mostly because I do development and have to run my compiler toolchain in a container. I like that it's not going to randomly break one day, whether through my fault or the maintainers'.