For me personally, if I can find a simple device that does what I need it to I would rather just be able to slap it on the channel and quickly tweak it rather than going through process of trying to make it work myself, and take myself out of a creative flow or eat into limited time actually making music.
Although, I have very little prior experience with coding, I’ve used max a bit but I’m not proficient or quick with it at all.
I do kind of want to learn but at the same time I kind of feel like I already have everything I could ever need for making music just with vanilla Ableton if I’m creative enough with it