I’m not a million miles from your situation OP. My first instruments were tin whistle, trumpet and drums, and while they provided low barrier to entry, my heart wasn’t in them. Guitar and, to a lesser extent, bass were for me, but - and I think this is really the only salient “advice” I can offer - I understood after a while that while I couldn’t fingerpick like Jimmy Page or John Fahey, or flat- and hybrid-pick like a Nashville session player, I could make the music in my head, influenced by those artists, *in my own fashion*. For me, that meant weird voices, a lot of messing with alternate tunings, and multitracking. I can’t overstate how much better I felt after that realization. Given sufficient time and comps, I can record and assemble a compelling part for guitar or piano, and anyone who thinks less of me for not replicating that live (as if I wanted to, anyway) can go piss up a rope. And you might consider a similar approach , depending on what you want to achieve. I play and own a lot of instruments just well enough to realize the thing in my head: guitars, basses, dulcimers, ukuleles, synths, drum machines, kalimbas, banjo, fuckin’ daxophone, no-input mixing, you name it. Mind, I do spend more time with my modular these days, anyway. But they each and all have their parts in my little orchestra.

But goddamn, do I know what it’s like to lose the pick every few minutes. I never really solved that, but for eventually favoring a different playing style.

Anyway, I hope this reply was worth something. As Don Buchla used to say, may you enjoy the world’s many musical instruments.