The asking people part was the hard thing for me, always has been. That honestly was the missing piece for me. I absolutely agree that written docs and online content are sufficient for some people, that's how I learned Linux and sysadmin stuff, but I tried on and off to get into electronics for years that way and never got anywhere.

I think the problem was all of the getting started guides didn't really solve problems I cared about, they're just like "see, a light! isn't that neat?" and then I get bored and impatient and don't internalize anything. The textbooks had theory but so much of it I would forget most of it before I could use it and actually learn. Then when I tried to build something actually interesting to me, I didn't actually understand the fundamentals, it always fails, Google doesn't help me find out why because it could be a million things and no human in my life understands this stuff either, so I would just go back to software.

It could be LLMs are at least possibly better for certain people to learn certain things in certain situations.