Yup I have felt like that.
For me it just has been lots and lots of practice. I also learned to reset my brushes before starting a project because some of them had weird settings that I didn’t love.
I have grown to love the grab and snake hook brush a lot and combine them with the mask brush to get most of my basic shapes down. I definitely need dynotopo when I am using them and I often play with the collapse methods (subdiv collapse versus edge collapse) and it helps me get most of my needs done.
