I don't tend to use awk in scripts as I do tend to do them in Python, but I do use awk on almost daily basis in one-liners.
Probably the most common thing for me is so I can read a config file without annoying comments and big line spaces.
grep -v "^#" krb5.conf | awk NF
No, but I heavily use perl still... I feel like you can't really call yourself a Linux person without knowing perl and python both. Knowing awk can't hurt though.
Just use awk and when needed ask ChatGPT for the syntax of the command
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