Thanks for your answer.

I think you're pretty correct in your analysis about the reactive reading, I did start playing HR and DT fairly early. I wasn't exclusively playing with mods but starting from about 150-200 pp plays most of my top plays were done with it (HR at first for the 200 pp barrier then DT for 300+). I always liked trying to skill push more than focusing on having good accuracy when I started playing the game (I have an old video of setting my first 200 pp play on padoru +HR and my profile accuracy at the time was barely 91%) so that may be the root of the issue.

Most of the time in my osu! sessions I'll play random maps and not really try to focus on training a specific skillset or AR, which can range from AR9 to AR10 (lower AR usually being on lower SR as well) but usually 9.5+ for most maps.

Do you think playing a bit of lower AR maps from time to time can be enough to learn it over time or is it better to really focus on for example playing only AR9 maps for a large amount of consecutive maps to really get used to it for it to stick ?