Unfortunately I don’t think I know the answers to your questions. I do what you say: open one or multiple tabs in my terminal emulator if I need to read multiple parts at the same time. I press / and then type in some case-sensitive text if I want to search for occurrences of this text. Or I press ? and some text to search backwards. And the rest I “lamely” do with pressing up-down arrows…
Learning by example is exactly the second layer I’m referring to in my text above. Man pages are very… formal. If I don’t yet understand what they even talk about, I need examples before their concepts become “native” to me.
I can’t “teach” well really - but I’m explaining how this works for me. I used to hate man pages, now I love them. Even a very difficult one like man bash. There is a point in the learning curve where it gets a lot better…



Not a clue myself, but when I have to choose, I go with Mistral. They used to have a very good policy last time I’ve read it. They’re also targeting the European market a lot (and are located in Europe), which seems much safer than US or China in terms of data handling to me.
They also shared open-weight state-of-the-art models and ideas multiple times. The 7B Mistral was a thing for a while, and they were the first to ever publish an open-weight MoE model (Mixtral) I believe.