I guess, I'm just admitting that I have no desire to learn it.
+1 - I'm sure they have a value - but - IMHO, I consider the power hand plane in the same catagory as the drum floor sander. Great tool - once mastered. Disaster at the end of a cord for the unsuspecting.
In my case, the cord got snagged on the edge of the piece I was working on. I'd learned that the only way to use it was to run it semi-quickly across the surface in one smooth movement. When the cord snagged, it skewed the planer off to one side & drew a nice deep furrow right across the face of the surface.
Scratch one project and toss it on the burn pile.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon