"I also tend to stick with something as long as I find use in it, and once it begins to become fairly useless or not to enough of my benefit anymore, most of the time I subconsciously start drifting away from it until I'm rid of it mostly or entirely; I don't like just wasting my time doing something extensively if I'm not finding some decent enough benefit from it"

Agreed.

By the way, I read the essay about crow on your website, and liked it very much. :)