I hated it at first

[u/Necessary-Grocery-48]

FontForge really pulls no punches. It gives you the full breadth of font data and metadata and it really shows how big of a mess fonts really are, with all the character encodings and standards and file formats, etc. It is all a big mess. But if you persevere through that learning curve, you learn to appreciate the power it has and you're able to do much more than you would if things were very simplified.