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I'm with everyone else here that says you need to forget about the trendy junk and get the job done.

Think brutally effective rather than elegant or modern. The simplest most old fashioned method that will work is often good enough.

> The trouble is that you need to learn those tools and languages before you can get to do it the easy way.

this is never some weird tradeoff, this is simply people selling you bullshit and you buying in.