If you already have the background to understand computation and software, you're: a) not one of the people at risk of making this bad decision or getting stuck

If you already have the background to understand computation and software, you're: a) not one of the people at risk of making this bad decision or getting stuck there; b) already in possession of much more valuable skills than knowing some software suite. Getting this background requires a non trivial amount of time. It's easy to take our ability to generalize different computer based tools when you already understand digital computer architecture and know a few programming languages. The vast majority of people do not start from such a broad base of knowledge when choosing some software tool to learn.