Not directly on topic - but I was a hobbyist silversmith as a teenager. I learnt many of my skills from a stern old German bloke at the silversmithing club.

He liked to say "Gutes Werkzeug ist die halbe Arbeit" (or sometimes: "Gutes Werkzeug, bessere Arbeit"). A good tool is half the work, or: Good tools, better work.

This idea has informed my coding decisions too. Evaluating the worth of a tool is more complex in software than in silversmithing, though.