[comfypotato]

Having a cluttered garage and having the right tool for the job are completely unrelated.

I’m not 100% following the discussion, though. Most software work can be done with vi and nothing else. Working with your hands, on the other hand, requires snap-ring-plier specific tools.

[__MatrixMan__]

If your garage has room for 100 tools, and you do 101 jobs, each which requires a niche tool, they become related on the 101st job.

That is, unless you start finding other garages for your tools, but even then you're paying a too-many-tools overhead cost.

With hand tools it's a little harder to sell people on a tool that only does one job, so you'll reach that point more slowly. Maybe it's the 201st job. But if you look at the explosion of languages, libraries, an SaaS offerings for everything under the sun, it seems that the tech world is more than capable of overcomplicating your stack with a 1:1 tool/task mapping.