I think you make an excellent point. Tools that are "internally cohesive" reward the effort put into learning them. Knowledge gained learning one function of

I think you make an excellent point. Tools that are "internally cohesive" reward the effort put into learning them. Knowledge gained learning one function of an internally cohesive tool can often be applied to others, opening up new functionality and encouraging you to learn more about the tool. This way your understanding of good tools tends to grow organically instead of the jarring pile of rote-learning that a kludgy tool tends to require.