I guess there's an established trend how one writes about switching to new language: it's usually a long blog post containing facts distilled by others, sometim

I guess there's an established trend how one writes about switching to new language: it's usually a long blog post containing facts distilled by others, sometimes mixed with author's wishful thinking. All that because author probably feels a need to justify his decision. It's normal - we usually want to justify the reasons why we do stuff, esp. when the new way is time consuming. It's also great that the OP is willing to dive into new waters. But such article cannot be taken as an expertise, even for the reason that it's not from OP's experience (yet).