Falling short of other outreach tools

My company decided to consolidate as many tools as possible within Salesforce and we, therefore, got rid of another sales outreach tool in favor of High-Velocity Sales. I use it to reach out to current customers, send them event invites, and get in touch with my whitespace accounts. With a few exceptions, I mostly work with SMBs and medium enterprises, therefore have around 1000 accounts in my patch, so an outreach tool is paramount for me to do my job efficiently. With that said, HVS is a big disappointment. The UI doesn't make any sense, it's non-intuitive to use and a process that was incredibly easy with all the other similar tools I've used (that also integrate with Salesforce), HVS complicates the process tremendously for no apparent reason. Why can't all the different functions be under the same view? Why do I have to create templates to create the steps in a cadence? How come I can't edit a cadence after I've first activated it? If I'd like to make edits, I need to clone the original and create a whole new cadence... I don't even know where to begin in terms of adding prospects to it...