As a self taught programmer with a Communication Studies degree, this definitely resonates. The ability to articulate the problem in code is kind of the starting point for most productive development work.
I actually have the exact opposite experience when I try out Chromium based browsers. I end up missing FF dev tools. I love the ability to edit and resend network requests. I'm sure I could figure out how do to so in Chrome devtools, but just not as intuitive (at least to me!)