There are tools in the shop that you operate, and there are tools in the shop that you develop a relationship with. The random orbital sander is operated. The table saw is operated. A well-tuned hand plane — one you've learned to set, sharpen, and use with the grain and against it, across it and diagonally, on flat surfaces and curved ones, is something you develop a relationship with over years of use, and that relationship produces results that no machine in the shop can re