Pretty much my experience as well. Bought it at a good discount, tried to make it work (consumed all books, online tutorials and examples before that) and went back to my text editor and Bootstrap after 2 days after discovering that I was spending more time fighting with the tool than creating useful things in it.
It's just one of those tools who has a single purpose and as soon as you try to do something outside of it, you need to use something else. I mean HTML/CSS isn't exactly the most hard thing to rite in the world.