That was a very nice take, but the tradition to stay up all night (as it were) is to study Torah. The other aspects the original poster mentioned could occupy each person the entire Shavuos. Having said that, to be clear, “all night” is really just 4-5 hours at the most, people who are not used to staying up all night will find their concentration is overcome by sleep, not everyone is seriously learning but take nice shmooz breaks, and after all that, for myself, my davening suffered terribly because of being so tired. I find increasingly the regular-zman minyan are being better attended over the past decades. It may be nice to stay up all night to learn but if you end up sleeping more hours during the day, you’re really not accomplishing much. So those who can, should and those who can’t may decide, as I have, to learn for maybe half the night, then sleep and daven like a mentch.
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