I've played guitar for something like 25 years, and have been active on forums for the same time. I've oscillated between "collecting gear" and "playing guitar"

I've played guitar for something like 25 years, and have been active on forums for the same time. I've oscillated between "collecting gear" and "playing guitar" many, many times - not that those are mutually exclusive, at all, but it I feel that it is such a ubiquitous thing in that space, that most everyone that play guitar seriously have found themselves in the same position. Suddenly you find yourself with too much gear, and you've spent too much time just buying stuff, without putting equal effort into your playing / writing / etc. Then you speak with the guys that are actually out there playing, and get a refresher to pick up your damn guitar and just play, gear be damned. So you feel very motivated for months...years...and then you're suddenly back collecting stuff, or spending too much time reading about the stuff. And to be honest, it kind of reminds me of when I started coding. Back then, I had a compiler, a bare-bones text editor, and that was that. I was really productive, creative even. Then I got caught up in the world of tooling, and I spent more time on building my perfect setup, rather than building products. (as much as I'd want to, at least).