Aside the "programming isn't especially difficult" which I think has more to do with how experienced people are poor evaluators of the required skills to be goo

Aside the "programming isn't especially difficult" which I think has more to do with how experienced people are poor evaluators of the required skills to be good in something (akin to gamers saying "git gud" when it comes to Dark Souls games), you have a good realization: The faster you iterate the faster you move. When I was learning simple syntax I used to be afraid, almost allergic, to the idea that the code I'm executing will produce errors. I realized too late that the faster I get to the point of erroring and interpreting the errors thrown the better my progress. To put that in the kitchen perspective, it's the point where you're sampling the food that you're cooking to see if it needs salt, you forgot the onions, or it's boiling too fast.