DaVinci Resolve has an entire dedicated colour page that looks, on first viewing, like medical imaging software. Scopes, wheels, curves, nodes. Most people see this and assume they need to study colour theory for months before touching anything.
That assumption is backwards. The tools are not the barrier. The barrier is not knowing what you are looking for in the first place.
Scopes describe what your eye should already notice
A waveform monitor shows you luma distribution. A vectorscope shows colour saturation and hue. These are descriptive tools, they confirm what a trained eye already sees. When you learn to look at footage critically first, before touching any wheel, the scopes start making intuitive sense.
The mistake most people make is using scopes as instructions rather than measurements. They move a wheel until the graph looks like a reference image they saw in a tutorial. The result is technically correct footage that looks wrong in context.
Professional colorists start with an intention: what is the emotional register of this scene? Software is the last step, not the first. If colour correction stopped you, start there instead.