Scrape the hell out of your boots over a stiff brush before you even step inside. I keep an old wire brush by the back door for exactly this reason. Also if you spray a little cooking oil on the lift's plate before you start, that mud slides right off instead of baking on like concrete. Not a cure all but cuts my cleanup time in half easy.

That's a solid point about the auto layout thing, it's honestly the main reason I stuck with Figma after trying to go back too. I spent about six months last year jumping between them and the one thing that kept pulling me back was how Figma handles resizing containers with text inside them. Sketch's version of that always felt clunky, like you'd have to set it up a certain way and then hope it didn't break when you changed the text length. Plus the way Figma lets you stack nested auto layouts inside each other is a game changer for building anything with buttons or cards that have to flex on different screens.

Ha, guess that's why I still use Comic Sans for everything @tara345!

That "your shop was too cold" part is the real kicker, most guys don't think about it until it bites them. I had a buddy in Alaska who swore by warming his glue bottles in a bucket of hot water for 10 minutes before he started, said it made a night and day difference on polyurethane stuff. The trick is to check the label, some of those construction adhesives say 40 degrees but really need closer to 60 to grab right. Also had a guy tell me he keeps a cheap infrared thermometer gun on his glue bottle, just zaps it before each bead to be sure. You probably saved yourself a headache by bringing them inside though, that's the kind of lesson you only learn once.

see I used to be right there with you on the authenticity side, but 3 years changed my mind a little. my younger cousin got into anime through the Cowboy Bebop dub specifically because he has some vision problems that make subs a real headache. for him it's not about being lazy, it's about actually being able to watch the show. now that doesn't mean I think every dub is good. the original Ghost in the Shell dub still sounds like they recorded it in a tin can with a fan running. but when a studio puts real effort into casting, like with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, I think it opens doors for people who'd never try subs in the first place. your mileage may vary, but I don't see dubs as ruining anything if they get more people into the hobby.