The timeline has gone through some big changes in Blender 5.0 and that confused me a bit.
Thankfully there is a video where Wayne is going over the changes to animation in Blender 5.0 here: https://youtu.be/xKFRRfzRN7E?t=410
Does this mean it is recommended to immediately start using the Dope Sheet editor instead of Timeline now?
Thanks
Yes, The dopesheet should be the starting point. They wanted to get rid of the timeline editor, but because the community voted that down they left it...For now.