The answers they get are a remarkable scatter of widely varying advice.
Some people even suggest starting with table saws and routers.
Despite these big differences the opinions seem to be strongly held. Best I can figure, each person's individual experience has resulted in these firmly held, yet very different, opinions. In face of this danger, I'm going to venture to give some advice. Cheap tools are a bad buy and can damage your work so, I am going to give a very rough estimate of what you should expect to pay for an acceptable quality item of each type. I have tried to list these tools in order of need, starting with most essential.