Quote - "IMO the Vue PDF manual is rather useless for a beginner. (no examples)"

I was a beginner back in 2006/2007. I read the Vue manual and it was very useful. I still resort to the manual many, many times nowadays (I press F1 many times).

IMO, reading and understanding the manual (any manual) is the foundation upon which knowledge and experience are built. If you don't read the manual, there will be many details that are crutial for progressing in the use of Vue (or any other tool) that you will know only too late (or never). The interesting part is that you'll never know what you're missing until someone, some day, tells you something and you go "duh!! is that possible?? I wasted so much time doing it in another way!"

Is it possible to use Vue and be good at it without reading the manual? Sure. It's also possible to drive a car without any driving lesson. It'll just take longer and will be more frustrating (and wreck a car or two in the process).

Quote - "Also Vue has more bugs and memory leaks than any other commercial product known to me. So prepare for frustration!"

Like abundantly expressed in other threads, the amount of perceived bugs in Vue varies tremendously from user to user. I, for one, have very few problems and for sure no frustration at all.