It took like six attempts but I finally like jq. Very handy for one liners or quick bash scripts that read data from AWS cli output. It yeah in general prefer to remember the search terms for the working examples. I Google “Awk add total” at least one a month.
The best solution is to maintain infinite bash history and stop trying to remember arcane stuff.
Don't even get me started on tools like jq - so convoluted that I use python instead