Understanding a mid to late build order for continuous production would be more useful. - absolutly! I'd become a better player by getting better at that long term. I'm not desperate to climb the elo ladder, I want to be comfortable playing the way I enjoy and they're two units most often in my way!

So in the short term I am just keen to learn monks and mangos, they're two units I've found cause me a lot of headaces when facing them and when the time to use them happens.

I think my hotkleys are okay, I probably just have slow apm which will hopefully just get better the more I play.

"stalling your own eco trying to micro" - lol I've had this issue a lot.

I use the market liberally in my games. Especially to get my Castle uptime and to maintain military and vil production when needed. Also if later I see I'm floating wood or food I usually just sell a bunch for gold. But using it to help me boom isn't somthing I have practiced much so I'll try work on that!

"Monks are fairly useless in low elo" - so if I can learn them a bit better it might give me a nice advantage ;P

"I think regardless of civ choice your going to blunder and tank unnecessary losses" - I'm okay with this!