Weird. I hiked 10K yesterday through a snowy forest and took 3 photos.
I had a camera with a shutter that acted up like that!
Reminds me of the joke about the farmer from Vermont talking to the farmer from Texas, about size of their respective farms...
(farmer from Texas) "I'd get up in the morning and drive out, and I'd not get to the end of the farm by the end of the day"
(farmer from Vermont) "...yeah, I had a car like that once!"
Back on topic of thread, I recall the conversion to digital entailed reading to understand some basic concept difference (or similarities) to film, the then-current idiosyncracies of digital sensor behavior (now all that is different than in 2003), but after the intial orientation, the similarities were apparent, and more learning to take better advantage of the benefits of digital.
I recall a lot of testing done by me (over time), to prove out the 'same, but different' characteristics of shooting digital vs. film. Then I got to appreciated the ease (and lack of expense) of digital in testing many different matters that photography can encompass, it actually improved my knowledge, in spite of almost 40 years of experience/knowledge already accumulated.
It seems not much time has been needed for you to transition from perplexity to confidence, Sean. Congratulations, now grow your photography even more.