Thanks to all the responders who shared conventional wisdom.
I had a lot of noise when I moved over from Arduino, and it’s mostly gone. Now I can focus my frustrations on electronics and language, so it’s fun again.
It really sucked for a few weeks. You know how nothing can make sense, but then the normal stuff you’ve been counting on stops making sense and the lack of sense loses that comforting disorientation and gains a distressing disorientation.