Major Tom
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I made 2 gaffes when buying studio lights. The first one was buying higher quality than I needed for my light-duty amateur purposes. I bought a Hensel Porty set-up (with all the pricey Hensel modifiers) when Alien Bees, or similar, would have sufficed. Secondly, I bought 2 lights and immediately started confusing myself by trying to use them both, instead of learning how to light with one light and a reflector.Mathjak
... Of course, by the time I figured all that out I had expensive studio lights, umbrellas, soft boxes, light stands, boom arms, soft focus filters... Lol.
If I were starting again, I'd buy a single Alien Bee (or similar) with a selection of modifiers, and something to use as a reflector, and leave it at that. Once I started leaving the 2nd light in the bag (which I never did teach myself to use), I had an awful lot of fun with just one light, a reflector, and a few modifiers. It was fun learning how controlling the quality and direction of the light could make such a huge difference to the resulting images.