Ahoy!
I'm about a year into my mechanical keyboard hobby, and I couldn't be happier with it. I had no idea what I was missing...
I started after getting a dome board that was so unusually bad and mushy (Onn Soft‑Touch LK6400) that I couldn't bring myself to continue using it - and decided to see what all this "mechanical" fuss was about. I got the cheapest Easterntimes Tech board I could find on Amazon... and it was the best keyboard I'd ever used. If this was the bottom of the market, I thought, I have *got* to see how things go up from here.
A bit over one year later, I'm on my fourth board and my second Filco... an SA set coming for one, and an aluminum case on the way for the other. I have discovered interface bliss - and I'm never going back, happily immersed in my new obsession. Ha!
I've lurked here since December of last year when I joined the group buy for 1964 SA - I finally decided to join in, so cheers!