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Since there are so many guitar players in this thread, I'll go ahead and ask The One Question that pushed me away from playing (and keeps me away):

How do you know what to do with your right hand?

Most books I've (admittedly, casually) read and most tabs on the internet are surprisingly silent about this.

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The jazz guitar form of bikeshedding is discussing right hand picking technique. There is endless amounts of discussion on consecutive picking, alternate picking, sweep picking, gypsy picking, benson picking, etc.

Have a look at Tuck Andress' take on this to get a flavor: https://www.tuckandpatti.com/pick-finger_tech.shtml

That's a great question and one that I've struggled with myself. Best I can do is tell you to find a guitarist who you respect and appears to play without effort, find videos of them playing and try to emulate what they do. Practice with a metronome at very slow speeds and really focus on the motions and positioning required as you move from note to note and string to string. Arpeggios work really well for this type of practice because they're going to require you to hybrid pick and sweep to play them really fast.

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