While the gist of what you say is true, it is hard to get very good at treating them as instruments when they keep getting replaced with new, ostensibly-better versions every few months. But those new versions are not strictly better. They are mostly-better while actually having different strengths and weaknesses.

It's hard to decide when to use the best tool for a job you are aware of to ensure throughput and when to spend time experimenting with a new tool to learn what it's good at.