- How reliable are these user-made tools?
Most tools have been made to solve one problem and one problem only - they tend to “just work”. But like abissus points out, the forum is your most valuable way to judge how stable a tool might be, and whether it’s actively developed (potential bugs being fixed, and so on).
- What are the essentials? The tools that pretty much all the veterans use?
Good question, and worthy of a separate thread - any answer would depend on personal preference, really.
For example, I always install bystrano’s AutoClonePatternsand joule’s AliasIdenticalTracks.