It is exactly dismissing the possibilities some tools are better than others for particular jobs, and it has been a popular phrase for people advocating for bad tools for decades.
The previous favorite one used to be "a bad craftsman blames his tools", that people that liked to impose bad tools on others repeated all the time. But that phrase got old.
The previous favorite one used to be "a bad craftsman blames his tools", that people that liked to impose bad tools on others repeated all the time. But that phrase got old.