I did. Have probably put ~50 hours total into (free) typing courses during the last year or so. I'm still painfully slow. Maybe 50wpm tops for natural language

I did. Have probably put ~50 hours total into (free) typing courses during the last year or so. I'm still painfully slow. Maybe 50wpm tops for natural language, embarrassingly much less for programming. Thing is, I'm now even slower than I was before "taking the plunge", and I can't even go back to my old loose method I've nurtured for 20 years! On the flipside, as you mentioned, typing in itself isn't a huge bottleneck, especially with autocomplete, and I'm much faster navigating the ide. So maybe it's a net positive after all.