I agree with smalltowngirl. In my old shul im Brooklyn we had a “tzaddik” who sat in the front of the shul and davened with unbelievable kavanah while his SIX kids ran wild in the rest of the shul preventing others from davening with kavanah. It’s easy to say, just block it out, snd I’ve tried. But the effort I expend to block out the noise takes away from my davening. As a moshel ,let’s say you had to be on the 20th floor of a building for a minyan, but you’re forced to take the stairs, not the eevator. Sure, with effort, you can climb the 20 flights, arriving huffing and puffing just as minyan starts. Do you think you can put in the same effort if you had taken the elevator?
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