The tool is not important
For a long time, I've obsessed over the quality of tools than what I can do with them. Am I buying the best pen and best paper to take my notes on, is my computer the best the money can buy and is the software I am using resilient and be able to last a long time and is the bike I want to buy outlive my grandchildren. Spending months and sometimes years making a decision [1], time's spent finding the right tool and not actually spent using it.
Isn't it better to make a quick choice and put the tool to use and figure out along the way if there's the need for a better one? When I look back at all the tools I've purchased in the past, the ones for which I found the most utility were the ones I didn't think much about, cheap notebooks filled to the brim, a phone camera bought on impulse that did its job well [2] and writing software that actually is free and designed to make notes without thinking much – I am looking at you Notepad. I did buy Leuchtturm notebooks that I didn't end up using, have had decent SLRs that I rarely touched and have paid for writing software that I've never used after the first days. In this case it seems to me that using a tool is better than using none and what's easier to use is the one that's free or accessible rather than fretting about the right configuration and build quality.
Having noticed this, going forward my focus will be on building and doing things rather than fixating on the best way to build or do things. This gets momentum growing as a way of treating myself down the road perhaps I can invest more in shiny tools.
[1] I've been researching over a good home projector for over half a year now and now all my research is moot as new models are released
[2] Case in point, phone cameras. I've been told that I take decent pictures and people often ask me if I have an expensive camera but I always remind them it's not the camera but the one using it that makes pictures pop. A sub $300 phone can take decent pictures with enough experimentation.