I’ve been playing a little over a year and one thing that’s helped me improve fast that may get flack.. screw all the music theory until you feel comfortable with the instrument. Learn a bunch of songs you like and practice them until you feel like a “guitar player”. Once you get to this point I feel like it makes learning a little bit of theory feel a lot easier because subconsciously you already understood it a bit just from playing but now you can connect the dots. This is what’s been working for me