I have spent most of my career not using control panels. The reason I now run one is not the interface — it is the twenty percent of work that never makes it into the playbook.
The annoying thing about .htaccess was never the syntax. It is that you inherit two hundred lines of rules you did not write, cannot safely delete, and are about to lose the moment you change web server.
Every audit asks which systems are running software that no longer gets patches. You know the answer for the big three. You do not know it for the Java runtime inside a vendor appliance.
Every incident produces screenshots, and every screenshot contains more than you meant to show. Here is the habit I changed, and the editor I changed it to.
Once every couple of months I have the same small annoyance. Some tool I picked in 2022 has quietly stopped fitting, and it is time to look at what else is out there. The hard part is never picking the replacement — it is getting to a short list I can trust.