Line width is still unintuitive

I never understood this and I don’t think I ever will.

I change the print width of a curve, because there’s no other width quickly accessible:
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And then nothing happens in the viewport.

So, I go into the display settings to see if I can change all curves to use the print width instead of the object’s width (whatever that is) and there’s seemingly no option for it:
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Why is the UX so crap around this? Why is it so difficult to change the width of a curve?

At one point, I there was a glimmer of a hope of a quick setting, but I don’t think it materialized?