That’s what being an expert in (almost) any field is, isn’t it? 
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Ha!
Yes. Absolutely.
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Yeah, if i do a Nice controlled drop its good. It also takes several plucks or pick strokes to go back up to e
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
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It all depends on what you want to play. I love Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine and a lot of their songs are in drop D, but when I am just messing around I always play in standard tuning. All you have to do is drop your E down to D. I recommend picking up a clip on tuner to make it easy to tune.
Honestly it’s super easy without one. You get to where you can get really close just guesstimating and only require a couple seconds of fine tuning.
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You can use a normal tuner, it would just tune the opposite direction that you’re used to
If you just need an occasional d note, slide up to the 10th fret on the e string and find it there. If you have to do a lot, I agree with a second base.
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Now there’s a great statement!!! 
I have always said that everyone makes mistakes but you should learn from them and not just keep making the same mistakes hoping for a different outcome. 
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Also, luckily, there is a D string in the EADG tuning already 
just tune the E to a D one octave lower and that’s it.
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