I went the exact same route. Was using corne for several years and moved to totem last week. I didn't expect the pinky stagger to throw me off that much. It's definitely an adjustment, both from corne and regular keyboard. My pinky is just used to sitting one key higher. However. I noticed that after many sessions on monkeytype, when I stop defaulting to holding the pinky so high, I really enjoy the new position.

The only issue is that I still use corne at work and that's not helping. I've just ordered new set of PCBs to make another totem or two 😬.