Personally I find that for every feature that works out of the box there's two others that don't do what I want the way I want it. So I like my tools to be hackable. This does take time, and I admit I'm not always on the right side of the time savings chart[0]. ;) But I also generally find it satisfying -- tastes will differ on this point.

[0]:https://xkcd.com/1205/