Nobody starts in the right place. You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable one. That is not how obsession works. Obsession works by taking whatever is available and pressing on it until it either breaks or reveals something. The machine’s limits become a map of the territory. You learn what computing actually costs by paying too much of it on hardware that can barely afford it.
I know this because I was running Final Cut Pro X on a 2006 Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB RAM and 120GB of spinning rust. I was nine. I had no business doing this. I did it every day after school until my parents made me go to bed.
I find this to be the defining difference between all of the devices (the phone, the tablet, the watch, etc.) and a computer: the computer is a blank slate, it is what you want it to be. It’s a portal to possibilities. The limit is how far you’re willing to tinker with it. The new devices — they’re more usable? Easier? Accessible to everyone? Harder to fuck up? — they have always felt optimised for consumption.