You've already proven to yourself that the tooling that you are trying to use is costing you time, not saving you time like you want. Just don't use them for t

You've already proven to yourself that the tooling that you are trying to use is costing you time, not saving you time like you want. Just don't use them for this project. Just build the project using what you know now. You can pick up that new tooling again at a later stage when you aren't so pressured to deliver something. 99% of being a successful programmer is coming back tomorrow, and getting a tiny bit more done, and learning a tiny bit more.