Thank you.
> Further, I think that it's easy to actually overwhelm yourself with too many tools, at which point you've exhausted your interest and willingness to learn them.
I think most of the counterarguments in the comments to this post will have a similar idea to this. My thought is that this phenomenon occurs because of a lack of tool intelligence in handling tools. What those comments show is that more content is needed on how to survive among numerous tools and how to easily filter tools. Some things are hard to use alone without something else, and this seems to be the case.
> I think the best tool use and evaluation comes from a sense of immediate necessity
You assume that people can know what tools they need. Considering my observations, that doesn't match reality. That doesn't mean a dancer has to go through all the Excel documents they don't even use, but it's easy to narrow down the candidates for what might be relevant to you.