Hi, Jon, and welcome.
Interestingly (or not ; - ), my journey is the reverse of yours, and actually has been going on a bit longer (over a decade more). I don’t know how long you have been observing the forum – maybe you have not been looking at it any longer than since you have just joined and have not had any more firsthand experience than that, or maybe you have been ‘lurking’ a while. If the latter, you may have seen some of this already, but here is an excerpt from a recent post that might help you understand my perspective if you looked at it a little more fully: