With fine ingredients, it can be easy to make delicious food. Starting with good parmesan, butter, and garlic, for example, it is hard to go wrong. With poor quality ingredients, on the other hand, a cook will have to spend a lot of effort to conceal their shortcomings.
With good tools, a construction or repair project can be made as easy as possible to complete. Sometimes, “as easy as possible” might mean just barely possible. With poorly made tools or the wrong tools, the project may well drift from “barely possible” to “not quite possible” (or to “Now there are more problems.”) A worker will have to focus creativity on overcoming the limitations of the tools rather than attending to the work to be done.