If you feel that, you certainly should. Going after simpler tools may give you somewhat different experience of programming, but for pen and paper, it's totally different. It has much friction along most of the axes (you can't cut'n'paste or easily rename your variables, and it's difficult to pre-plan the length of a block of instructions), but along some, the friction is non-existent (invalid and ad-hoc created syntax, not defined functions, ellipses for obvious arguments and statements). Combine all that and your mind starts thinking in a different way, focusing on different things than it would with a computer editor.

I find it very beneficial in the early stage of planning a program (or a subsystem of program).