My guess is that when you are self taught and don't know what the hierarchy of technologies looks like, you can learn several advanced technologies without knowing the basic technologies that they are built upon and the challenges the basic tech can't solve.

So you just solve all problems with advanced tools, no matter how simple. You get into tech by learning how to use a chainsaw because it's so powerful and you wanted to cut a tree, now you need to cut some butter for a toast? Chainsaw!

Or maybe you stick with a stack that is too complex for most problems but also works for most of them so that when you solve/find a solution to a certain problem you can reuse that solution in all of your projects.

> it's so powerful and you wanted to cut a tree, now you need to cut some butter for a toast? Chainsaw!

Using a Ferrari to deliver the milk is how I've heard it said.

I thought it's the opposite and I have seen it self taught use simpler tools that are not the standard,like just using ftp or rsync instead of complex tools