My own perspective on this was that it felt like my brain would turn to goop when I got an error message, my eyes would cross and I would start frantically googling literally anything, skimming stack overflow, and getting nothing done. In order to progress I had to learn to slow down and start reading error messages and learning what they meant. Sometimes this meant I had to look up a bunch of words, one after another, to understand something incredibly dense.

So yeah, I think I largely agree with your assessment, and would only go on to state that the path forward is slowing down to learn vocabulary and think critically. You really speed up after that.