Same thing for me. Both frameworks I looked (freqtrade and some other with a fancy name) had a insurmountable amount of context needed just to grok the concepts and how to make the complicated machinery go. I would probably spend months just trying to understand it.
It got me so uneasy to the point I just decided to go straight at it. Load the values and hey, let's try some backtesting. Simple stuff. If at the end of the day I end with more money than I began, shit is working. tweak that into oblivion. That's my plan.
So yeah, you also validated me (because I was thinking "this is just going to be stupid stuff. that can't work").
Thank you for existing and lucky me to be able to have this timely exchange in such a noisy communication world heh
o/