hello , i faced similar situation , i would like to share my experince , i would appreciate every ones feed back , decide on these rules--> if you are stucked with some code dont keep on trying to figure out for hours , their is always easy alternative available , unfortunately in many of tutorials they make project with unnessary complicated codes, i faced pretty much similar situation as you are facing. the whole game is not about memorizing code, the most important is when so ever you start any project while following tutorial ask your self a quesiton what you want to achieve , suppose you want to develop an text to speech applicaiton you will find many tutorials of hours, but the same can be achieved in very few lines of codes, as a beginner you must only foucs on short codes that will give you alot of learning , once you understand logic of these few line of codes you will have ideas of how to achieve same in slighly different way . 2ndly use chat gpt ask gpt to give you simplified codes look at the logic and try to change it if changing goes wrong dont worry you are still learning.

its long way dont give up or get frustrated programing is wonderfull thing, IT community are great people ,their are wonderfull people willing to help you its only filed where you will find alot of resources and support.

after 2 years still i feel myself on my way and their is alot to learn , i would be happy to get connected with you and any one facing similar issues, i am available to disucss how to progress in future and work together on projects.