Handcrafting SVGs is tedious. On the other hand, for example, learning how to draw with path is super powerful for ... all use-cases.

Yuan Chuan, while working on the css-doodle came up with its own syntax to write SVG. They just published an article detailing why he did it and some of the challenges.

Or jump straight to the demo and play with it. It's kind of intuitive to use.