It's like that trope of the little angel and demon sitting on the protagonist's shoulders.
"I can get more work done"
"But it's not proper work"
"Sometimes it doesn't matter if it's proper work, not everything is important"
"But you won't learn the tools"
"Tools are incidental"
"I feel like I'm not close to the craft"
"Your colleagues weren't really reading your PRs anyway"
"This isn't just another tool"
"This is just another tool"
And so on forever.
I'm staying to think that if you don't have both these opposing views swirling around in your mind, you haven't thought enough about it.
It's like that trope of the little angel and demon sitting on the protagonist's shoulders.
"I can get more work done"
"But it's not proper work"
"Sometimes it doesn't matter if it's proper work, not everything is important"
"But you won't learn the tools"
"Tools are incidental"
"I feel like I'm not close to the craft"
"Your colleagues weren't really reading your PRs anyway"
"This isn't just another tool"
"This is just another tool"
And so on forever.
I'm staying to think that if you don't have both these opposing views swirling around in your mind, you haven't thought enough about it.