Unfortunately you're going to encounter regex a lot in your programming career and this tool won't always be there to save you, so you are going to need to lear

Unfortunately you're going to encounter regex a lot in your programming career and this tool won't always be there to save you, so you are going to need to learn regex one way or the other. You might as well get it over with sooner rather than later. This tool just hindering your progression and yet another abstraction someone has to to learn if they are going to deal with this code. It would make sense if this was a one-off thing and you'd be saving someone the effort of learning some weird protocol or syntax, but since regex is so common and most programmers have just learned to deal with them, you're actually adding more cognitive load, since now they have to know two things instead of one. Imagine coming across this in someone else's code and discovering the regex didn't work as expected. Now I have to debug the regex and figure out whether it's a bug in the tool, or in my regex, etc…