Have you used it alongside truffle suite recently? https://www.trufflesuite.com/tutorial I was pleasantly surprised how well put together the development tools felt.
Since then, transactions per day on the network have doubled, but gas costs are up 10X in gwei and some truly ludicrous multiplier in dollars. I suspected then that the switch to Proof of Stake and other scaling fixes was the fusion power of ETH, always six months away, and that concern looks really vindicated.