Andreas just gets stuff done. Watch his live content sometime.
"Today we are going to add X"
2 hours later: X is added and working fine.
Meanwhile, at work I could easily spend 2 hours looking for a GCC flag or figure out why the build script fails on arch after latest update
Updating tools in your environment/workflow is exactly a thing that can lose a lot of time, often for not much gain[1]. One way to become very productive is to know your tools very well, and that would extend to not changing them often.
[1] not much gain in productivity, but perhaps in security, compatibility, etc
Raise your hand if you have ever spend an afternoon trying to get someone else's build scripts working. Wondering why make, cmake, scones and ninja are used in the same project...