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!)
I've started tinkering on a tool for test case management. It would be a direct competitor of things link TestRail or Practitest. QA folks that I talk to seem to feel very underserved by these types of tools, so it feels like there would be demand for something with a bit more polish.