Really enjoyed this article! I have been coding for roughly a year by now (still considered a newbie tho), and some of the points you've mentioned just deeply relate to what I've been going through right now.
I love the fact that you'd wrote about how learning to code is by practicing (building small projects on our own), as copying codes from the internet may help us achieved the desired outcomes but it may not be helpful in our journey of gaining knowledge. This is something that I realised recently too..