I'm going to go out on a limb here, and make a very general characterization:
90% of the nice, organized, clean and well put together shops out there are almost never used, or at least used to a very small part of their potential. The shop itself is the objective, not the work done in it. Some great examples of that are seen here nearly daily, with $10,000 snap on tool boxes, loaded with tens of thousands of perfectly arranged, perfectly polished snap on tools. Not a scratch or speck of grease on any of it. Or, threads like the guy that is irritated his son put small dings in the top of his wood workbench. The tool collection or the workbench is the objective, not the work that can be done with them or on them. They're not an expendable item to be used up in doing work, they are the object of the activity in and of themselves.
This becomes a trap, particularly as we get older. As we get older and can afford nicer things, it occurs to us that it sure would be nice to invest some money in a nice shop, so we can comfortably and easily do the things we used to have to do without good facilities. Sometimes it becomes a retirement goal: Build a nice shop to work in when I retire.
The problem is that as we're reaching that age, we are also naturally losing initiative and capability. Often the decline coincides pretty well with the completion of the shop. We start out working on the shop with a lot of enthusiasm, and it gets 60, 70, 75, 80% done. The work to finish it gets slower; the process gets dragged out, and we get less and less motivated to work at a high rate. So, about the time the shop gets nicely completed, there's not a lot of motivation to do work in it.
I've seen this with a lot of retired guys and woodworking. They decide to take up woodworking when they retire. They buy a table saw, and use it to build some workbenches and cabinets and such. They buy a few other tools as they go along, as they find the need and can afford to. After the cabinets get done, they get a few books or subscribe to magazines or surf the net, and find all sorts of neat jigs and aids for woodworking to make things better and easier. They use their tools to make those jigs and aids. They are meanwhile getting older and slowing down, and doing less and less. Many of them never get beyond the cabinets and workbenches and jigs stage and actually do any work.
Most of the guys that are doing a lot of shop work are working with what they have, rarely doing large improvement projects, and rarely have nice, perfectly suited cabinets, racks, etc. They have focused on the work to be done, not the space to do it in.
Neither way is right or wrong, we all do something to occupy our spare time with things that interest us. Building a nice shop is just as valid an activity as building wooden handmade toys or fabbing steel trailers or working on old cars.
And, like any generalization, there's many exceptions. There are guys that have amazing shops that do a lot of work in them. But, from my observations, they're the exception, not the rule.
at least i have one that has 4 walls, a door and a roof.