Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
Tools are important. Professionals use tools they understand and use them deliberately to specific ends. Mastering your tools is an important step in mastering any craft and being able to evaluate new tools is an important part of that.<p>&quot;Tools don&#x27;t matter&quot; or &quot;caring about tools is for amateurs&quot; is plainly false and anybody who is proficient at any tool based skill knows this.<p>The actual fallacy of the amateur is thinking that having the tool is what creates the skill, when actually <i>having the skill</i> is what allows you to make use of that tool effectively.<p>Almost always having a good tool you are deeply familar with beats a great tool you have little understanding of. Regardless of that, bad tools lead to bad results, even if experience can reduce that effect.