Yeah, one good thing is that there are so many good YouTube videos now on techniques and the like. When I started there were scant few that were really worth looking at. Also, just dissemination of techniques and the like is so much better now.
For example, when I started in something like 2008, despite looking at many, many things, all you could really find were people advocating black primer, now-a-days, you can find way more information about the benefits of black, white, grey primers, zenithal techniques, and so on. It's really opened things up to let you explore more things realistically.