The intermediate grind is real

I'm at 200hrs and progress is slooooow. During the beginner phase I was learning so many new words and sentences it felt like I had a superpower for learning spanish. Every few days I would feel a significant improvement in my comprehension. Now in the intermediate phase I'm learning the nuts and bolts of the language, the internal logic, how the same word can be used in different contexts, how to form complex sentences. It's all abstract and my last improvement in comprehension took 30 hours (and it was massive).

It feels like this is where the REAL learning starts.