Man, honestly, not too sure about this, picking the "second best" is very random and can probably affect your choices of stack/methods in the long run. Take for example the DAW part, i chose FL studio to start with for the same reason as the "best" one being pretty complicated. Unfortunately when I did switch to Ableton and saw what the industry standard was, my whole year long progress pretty much went to s*t because of how overly simplified FL is, Just an opinion.