The right tool reduces the distance between effort and a useful result.

Using the wrong tool converts most of your effort into fighting the tool. The work still gets done, badly and slowly, and the fatigue at the end is mostly from the struggle rather than from the job. With the right one, the same effort goes straight into the result, and something that took an afternoon takes twenty minutes and stops being a chore. People often conclude they are bad at a task when they were simply badly equipped.

If a job keeps feeling harder than it should, examine the equipment before your ability. Borrowing the correct tool once is enough to tell you which of the two was the problem.