Am I the only one finding it hard to read code in vim? + any wish I’d knew tips?

I’ve been using Vim for the past 2 weeks and I’m growing into it!

I use vim packs to install plugins, basically vims own integration. I.e I pull the plugin from git and thats it.

I also set some keybindings. I modified the leader key to “,” and use YouComplete me.

For example I have nnoremap <leader>gl to go to declaration.

Orher tha that I am only using;

Hjkl to move around. v or shift +v, d, ctrl+ i and o to jump lists. E.g go back to “page” before going to its declaration.

What now? What should I learn next, I am trying to do this step by step to not give up. Also I feel like it’s harder reading code in vim. Maybe due to the color scheme I use? Which is gruvbox dark. How did you tackle this? And what are things you wish you knew before

Thank you!