If you want to be a good at something, stick to that something. Wootz has caught my fancy and I've literally gone through thousands of dollars of wootz easily. I've come a long way and there are still things I need to improve at or where I don't know as much as I would want to know.

It doesn't really matter what takes your fancy, as long as you get to know it so well that if you start at A and have to go to B, you know exactly how to get there no matter where A or B are. you'll mess up along the way and waste steel and time but you'll get there. That is why it is important to pick something and stay with it. If you go from O1 to O2 to 1095 to 52100 to an old file again, it's hard to become consistent.