You mentioned the first two weeks were rough, so what actually clicked for you after that? Like was it a certain project or did you finally hit a point where you stopped reaching for $ out of habit? I ask because the hard part for me wasnt the syntax, it was unlearning stuff like chaining everything and letting jQuery hide what was really happening in the DOM. Once I had to write my own loop with forEach to grab a bunch of elements, I finally got why people said learn the basics first. So was there one specific moment or exercise where plain JS stopped feeling like a chore?