I agree with this sentiment a lot. I find my experience matches this. It's not necessarily fast at first, but you learn lessons along the way that develop a new set of techniques and ways of approaching the problem that feel fundamental and important to have learnt.

My fun lesson this week was there's not a snowballs chance in hell GitHub Copilot can correctly update a Postman collection. I only realised there was a Postman MCP server after battling through that ordeal and eventually making all the tedious edits myself.