I've written two papers in it now, so I'm not a grandmaster yet either. If you managed what you wanted to do and enjoyed it, you probably know as much as me.

I'm not sure there is really a wrong way to use it. If you google every little thing to find a good solution (not manually inserting and formatting references for example), I don't think there is too much to be done better. At least, to my beginner's eyes it doesn't seem like it.