Learning the fundamentals of your tools is a...fundamental of doing this job. If you don't want to know how your tools work, I question one's competence or desire to do this job.
> If you don't want to know how your tools work, I question one's competence or desire to do this job.
I in turn question one's competence when, instead of getting the job done, hours upon hours are spent on irrelevant parts of configuration or getting some ideal solution to work where something less elegant would perfectly suffice. Unfortunately, the folks insisting on 'mastering' ones tools tend to often be in that category.
As an analogy: I don't care if the craftsmen that fixes my house uses his hammer holding it upside down. I only care that my house is properly fixed and stays so. How that was achieved, I could not care less about.
If one doesn't care that the carpenter building his house is using a hammer upside down, that's a whole 'nother bunch of issues I won't go into here.
I'd love to see at least a small allusion to what nature the issues are made of. Because, to iterate, I'd rather have a well-built house build by an absolutely unconventially working carpenter than a mediocre house build by someone that knows how to use a hammer according to the textbook.
If I want to see nice processes and fantasies fulfilled, I watch movies. In real life, I care about results.
An apt comparison might be Jimmy Hendrix playing a right-handed guitar left-handed (i.e. upside-down) and still producing master pieces.