I think one key here is "documentation that you can trust makes a big difference". I would add to that documentation you can navigate. It took me a long time i

I think one key here is "documentation that you can trust makes a big difference". I would add to that documentation you can navigate. It took me a long time in perl to learn how to read the docs. Specifically, what is this squiggly thing. How do I Google for that? Then I was pointed to https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html. I'm also sometimes guilty of Googling for the answer because I don't want to have to learn how to use tool X. I just want to move on to the interesting work. That's a bad idea. It's always worth understanding what you're doing.