Hijack alert here. Never pass an opportunity to geek-out over shop tools.
Hand planes. I have seven and know how to use them, good ones too except for the old Stanley block plane that flexes way too much. I watched pretty much every stock making video on utoob at one time or another and everyone wants to use a plane for truing the blank. BS. Ain't got time for that. I can do in ten seconds what takes them an hour and do it more accurately, with zero chipping or tearout on a ba belt sander.
I get what you mean by the feeling of using a tool that really, really works just perfectly for the task. Don't you wish more were like that?
Couple more.....a DeWilt (sic on purpose) 18V impact driver, AKA "screwgun" that will sink a 3" Phillips-head deck screw to the hilt every time with one hand, wrist bent 90 degrees, arm straight, while clinging to a ladder 30' in the air and not strip the head. The sliding sleeve screw guide is also indespensible. Another one, most people don't even know exists, is the Blue Point hose clamp pliers for those constant-tension radiator and heater spring clamps that so many mechanics cuss. Gotta be Blue Point, though, several similar designs by other brands are total flops.