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I don't have the time to spend weeks for every little tool to study its details and edge cases, I simply want to use them and get stuff done. If a tool is actively counterintuitive and hostile to its user, then it is flawed and it is no wonder users will seek out alternatives.

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>I refuse to learn the tool properly and blame the tool instead of my laziness

Ok

Yeah, of course I'm lazy, why would I want to do unnecessary extra work? If a tool has bad UX that demands more effort than it should, I will find a different one. I have a limited amount of time to spare. If there is no other tool, I'll do a "good-enough" job and move on to more important tasks. Luckily, alternatives usually exist. Krita instead of Gimp, Cuda&OpenGL instead of Vulkan, C++ instead of Rust, etc.

there's two types of workmanship, where one camp focuses on becoming more and more proficient with progressively more advanced tools and the other focuses on blasting through the piecework as quickly as possible. obviously the latter is much more common, but on a site such as this there still exist faint traces of the former.

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