How do you know?
Did you tried to challenge Blender approach?
The goal of learning shortcuts is to reach two-handed aproach instead of single-handed one, which is easier to learn, but way slower to use.
It has been already proven for a couple of decades.
So when you learn Blender, you learn the fastest approach right from the begining - that is the point of learning Blender.
Every software has bevel and extrude, in modern graphics era it is important how fast you perform them during deadlines.
It is a certain step in every professional modeller’s evolution - when you stop using GUI in order to bypass GUI speed limitation level and reach physical body speed limitation level.