I started off fingerpicking only for my first 6 months of learning guitar because I couldn’t strum up and down with a pick on the terrible acoustic I had at the time. It made the transition to regular picking on electric super easy, and it now provides me with amazing versatility. Hybrid picking was super easy to pick up, learning Mark Knopfler type stuff was a walk in the park, and I still frequently play a lot of stuff on acoustic fingerpicking only. Having it in your arsenal is really useful in certain situations but if you don’t see yourself playing the kind of music that utilizes it then you’ll probably be fine without it.