the case is closed? does that mean that you no longer intend to pursue this goal or something else?
20 years ago I was not an experienced person, but I understood a topic well enough to make a generally purpose library. Shortly there after Microsoft introduced the thread pool APIs in UM rendering all that I had done obsolete. I still use my code for this instead of theirs, but had is started 1 year later, I’m sure I would do the reverse.
I don’t think that any of the guidelines opposes learning by those who want to. in fact I think that we actively encourage it - no matter how harsh some of the responses might seem