I had the opposite experience - started in Ableton at the end of highschool and faffed around for 8yr having a lot of fun releasing a few-dozen mostly sample-based projects then picked up Hardware about 7yr ago and started from 0 again. I can count on one hand the number of completed tracks I've put out since as most of my time is spent learning workflows and actual synthesis.
I had the opposite experience - started in Ableton at the end of highschool and faffed around for 8yr having a lot of fun releasing a few-dozen mostly sample-based projects then picked up Hardware about 7yr ago and started from 0 again. I can count on one hand the number of completed tracks I've put out since as most of my time is spent learning workflows and actual synthesis.