[snoopen]

A good craftsman should also be capable of making and improving their own tools. A woodworker with a bad chisel simply reshapes it.

Relating back to software as tools, this only works if you have access to the tool code.

[angry_moose]

That only partially works.

There's a huge difference in steel quality among chisels/cutting tools. Anyone can sharpen a $2 chisel so it cuts nicely once, but a $50 chisel will hold its edge longer and cut nicely hundreds of times.

There's only so much maintenance you can do on a bad tool.