CAS versus HOME confusion.

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I'm new to the prime.
So bare with me - there is a lot of beginner's confusion in my questions. However I do use hp calculators since the early 90s. Maybe that is what makes playing with the prime a VERY frustrating experience for me. Recently I read a quote that says it is designed for school audience and from a teacher's point of view. Since I'm an engineer that might be the cause of my problems. I'm stuck in old thinking and I don't have too much time to spend for the unknown.


My question here is: Why would one distinguish between makelist in CAS view and MAKELIST in homeview? The result I expect is the same so why the hell do I need to consider what mode I'm in? Same goes with the variable naming but that is something different.
You offer workarounds on how to use something in a different calculator mode. Could be a command or a symbolic expression or whatever... I don't feel comfortable with needing workarounds i.e. strcat or helper programs for achieving something that SHOULD work from scratch in my intuition.... :-(

Does anyone know a comprehensive, yet pratctical usage in mind introduction for usage of the hp prime?? Most of the sources I found where app-centric, plain advertisings or such. In depth tricks or structured explanation are found very rarely.
Did hp kill the mes??? That helped me more than once. rpn needed! Flickering screen? wtf.

Please, community, help me love the latest hp product!

Second you say a list in cas is something completely different than a list in home mode - could you be more specific on that, please?