There is a consistent pattern among people who try editing software and give up. They spend hours on visual cuts, get something that looks reasonable, export it, watch it back, and feel deeply disappointed without knowing why. The why is almost always audio.
Dialogue with inconsistent room tone. Music that ducks awkwardly. Cuts where ambient noise jumps between clips. These are not aesthetic choices, they are technical failures that pull a viewer out of the experience faster than any bad cut would.
What professional audio work actually involves
In a professional post-production workflow, audio gets its own dedicated pass. Sometimes its own editor. Premiere Pro has an Essential Sound panel that does a lot of heavy lifting automatically, but it requires you to correctly tag your clips as Dialogue, Music, Ambience, or SFX before it does anything useful. Skip that step and the panel is useless.
If your earlier attempts at editing felt hollow even when the visuals were working, go back and listen to those exports with your eyes closed. Odds are you will hear exactly where the work stopped. Audio is correctable, but only if you start treating it as a separate discipline rather than an afterthought.