The bottom line, for all such discussions, is that you should find the most-powerful power tool that gets you as close as possible to the place where you need to be... wherever that place is.

You will always find that there are still many things that you must tweak-and-polish, once you get there. But... at least “you took the bullet-train to get there!”

You can always do all the work by hand. You can use low-level tools if you want to. But you can send messages by carrier-pigeon, too.