Man, my buddy did the same thing with pasta for a year before he finally weighed it.

Did you end up actually understanding why the bracket mattered, or did you just find it and move on? Because that part is where the real learning happens (at least it was for me). Once you trace back through the error and see how the whole block was broken, stuff like indentation and scope starts making way more sense than any video could teach.

Random constraints force your brain to stop looping on the same dead ends.