I feel you, Im bit over 150h into game and I still find it hard sometimes to use forums and find answers to stuff I ponder on.
But luckily whatever you choose to do ingame doesnt affect in negative way, I mean, you can always alter your looks, change your class etc if you wish to do so. You can even reset your attribute points! I found it very helpful to just try out every class and explore craftings stuffs.
Only negative thing about taking a liking to crafts is that youll very soon run out of inventory space even with two retainers.
I also found very useful to just google stuff instead of trying to find answers in active help or the lodestone