I’ve been there. Learning how design with vectors requires a definite skill set. It’s is different from using a raster based design tool. There are loads of tips and tricks and lots of Inkscape help in the forum archives. Links to videos too.
Here is one I did way back. I had to learn this and folks on the forum pointed me in the right direction. Here is a basic point that has lots of applications. Text has to always be converted to paths and then it becomes an object like any other. Then you have to figure out how to merge, join, unite the paths correctly.