Like, don't spoil it. I even had a ponytail until my mid-40s . I wasn't protesting anything. I was just distracted for several years and forgot to get a haircut. Having long hair took an extra 30 minutes out of my busy day.
Long hair takes longer to wash, longer to dry, longer to comb.
And you have to use such things as shampoo and cream rinse, polymers and protein builders or you'd end up looking like Anthony Hopkins in a monkey movie. Today, I just use soap. Any kind of soap. But back in my Tarzan days, I even sunk so low in the height of follicle vanity that I used a mane and tail rinse to take the knots out. Mane and tail rinse.