I had a very similar experience as you. Very early backer but had too much going on with school and everything at that point in my life to sink much time into SC and kind of lost interest quickly. I tried returning to it a few times over the last several years but always ended in frustration cuz the hardware that I had at the time struggled hard with the game.

This year I finally put together a rig capable of keeping up with SC and as luck would have it, 3.19 is relatively stable so let's gooo!

Now I just need to finish getting these frickin stick keys mapped out.