I'm not talking about hyper-flexible tools like Emacs or Perl. I mean tools that do one thing, and do it well, with zero tweaking needed, or even allowed. A hammer, a hacksaw, a copy machine, a vending machine, software like age, or like notepad.exe. They can be learned end to end in a rather short time, and if you pick a hacksaw in a different workshop, it's almost guaranteed to work exactly the same as yours.
Somehow in the same vein, some people prefer to write in C and tell the machine what exactly it must do, on a very low level, instead of picking an abstraction-rich language like Typescript or C++ or, well, a Lisp, where you typically operate in abstractions which you need to tweak to express your solution elegantly and correctly, but not very directly.
It gave me orange. I wanted lemon-lime. Another one swallowed my coins.
But to be pragmatic, many tasks need more than one thing to be done (I think most of us compose our e-mail in a program which sends said e-mail out as well, for example), so the inflexible tools can be insufficiently convenient at times.
Also, consider the humble scissors. They do one thing and do it well unless they're the wrong handedness. Try using a right-handed pair with your left hand, it's terribly unwieldy.
Somehow in the same vein, some people prefer to write in C and tell the machine what exactly it must do, on a very low level, instead of picking an abstraction-rich language like Typescript or C++ or, well, a Lisp, where you typically operate in abstractions which you need to tweak to express your solution elegantly and correctly, but not very directly.