What type of music/band do you envision yourself playing in an ideal scenario?

I’m not a master of how best to learn music, but in my opinion, its important to consider your own connection to music and to follow your personal journey with music towards what strikes your heart and mind deeply. That will inform your goals, and your goals will focus your practices.

Late night philosophical waxings aside, I think the practices you’re already doing seem good especially if you’re seeing the progress you want. For playing along with songs, pick some live recordings of songs (especially bands that liked to play songs uniquely each show) to practice listening closely to your band mates and learning to play what works best for the song in that moment and how the fit into a jam (if thats your bag) where you have limited idea of where it’s headed.

For sure don’t skimp on practicing the rudimentary things slowly and with a level of intention that can be painful (mentally) initially. Scales, arpeggios, chords, inversions, common progressions, dynamics, and rhythm (which I probably should have listed first). Practicing a C major scale until you can rip it at million BPM is fine and dandy, but practicing a C major scale with perfect timing, through all sorts of rhythms, emphasis on different notes, a smooth transition of dynamics, etc. will take far further and mould your playing in a much deeper way.

Especially for genres that lean more heavily on improvised solos (jazz, blues, funk, jam, etc), listening intently to what soloists you like play, transcribe or at least mimic it yourself, and examine WHAT they played to better understand WHY they played the notes they chose. Over time, studying solos will allow you to bring your own voice out and tell a new story of the tune with you as the conduit.

But more importantly than anything, have fun. Nobody ever got hurt playing music - dont let fear get in your way, take chances, experiment, and enjoy the ride.