I want to leave this thread with the following comment. I don't need you to reply or even acknowledge it. I merely want to express my personal opinions on this matter.
Perhaps it might be because I adopted a particularly extreme strategy for learning Japanese, which was listening to Japanese stuff (rap music, NHK news broadcasts, audio ripped from Japanese YouTube videos, audio from anime) and reading Japanese stuff (Wikipedia articles, news articles, eroge, LNs) nearly all day long that I ended up burning out of being exposed Japanese stuff relatively quickly, but I felt like learning a language for any reason is usually likely to be a huge investment both in terms of time and mental effort required, and that unless one has an extremely good reason for learning a language, such as actually living/having a job in a country where that language is spoken, one is unlikely to find much joy or reason to do it. I tried learning other languages, such as German and Latin, for "higher" reasons (reading literature and history books), but even though I did enjoy doing for a while, I eventually got tired of that and lost my passion for it.
I think it's honestly not that good of an idea to drop anything just for the sake of a single self-improvement/indulgence activity, and I feel as if, even though learning languages can be done as a casual passtime, it shouldn't become one's focus in life unless one has plenty of time and money to spare. In fact, giving everything up for the sake of a hobby sounds like the way to end up being completely disgusted by it and live regretting it afterwards.
