Most languages I've worked with I neither love nor dread. Clicked through to the SO survey results and even skimmed the methodology section, but I couldn't find what question they asked to get these numbers.
1. Highlight the clip and "strip silence" to split it into a bunch of separate clips the leave out the silent bits
2. Highlight those clips and "shift left within selection" (I might not have that command name exactly right) to collapse them against each other
Whoa. For years I've been seeing YouTube videos that seem to just teleport choppily around what I assumed were silences. I always assumed there was a standard tool that everyone used to do this. I can do the equivalent thing to a podcast episode in like 5 seconds in Logic. The notion that people have been doing this by hand is staggering, but kudos to you for finally coming along and filling this niche.