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You can't know until you try it.
Professionals are trained on already available answers, often target marketed, which moves forward the penetration of such answers into broad society.
This does not mean they are good or bad, just popular.
Any alternative solution will always be compared to the more popular, even if better.
No you definitely can know.
Because if your company tells you you should use this software, you do not get a say in what software you use.
So it is either this, or nothing.
Funny how we jumped from an implied personal use to an enterprise use all of a sudden.
To which the same basic rules apply. The added problem on enterprise is that you have legally binding contracts to force the company to stay with a bad software.