>HuggingFace, FastAI and similar frameworks are designed to lower the barrier to ML, such that any person with programming skills can harness the power of SoTA ML progress.

I started out with FastAI and now learning PyTorch. I agreed.

I'm more of the top-down student (learn the practical stuff first then the fundamental). FastAI is doing great job at showing me what is possible and interesting with their lectures.

I moved to PyTorch because I wanted to understand more about whats underneath FastAI. I'm currently doing ZeroToMastery PyTorch and found that the knowledge I had with FastAI is helping alot.