> most people are going to be newbies Only briefly; I expect to be proficient with a tool for most of my time with it. If I constantly find myself near the bot

> most people are going to be newbies Only briefly; I expect to be proficient with a tool for most of my time with it. If I constantly find myself near the bottom of the learning curve, that means I'm impulsively choosing and abandoning tools way too quickly for the payoff.