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I have to say, I just came up past a year in December, and I even took maybe 6 months off because of my frustration with bar chords. I thought I’d literally be starting from scratch because I had taken so much time off.
I’m amazed, that I not only retained a lot of the things I learned, but I’m even better at it than I was when I started AND some of the newer things I’m trying to master, are coming more quickly than in the past (including the mini-F bar chord!). Some of the lessons we are doing now, seem easier than they were when I started. So there is definitely progress. I have to look at my fingers less and less.
I am also doing the lessons a little differently than when I started in case this helps anyone else. I am an audio/visual/tactile learner. And maybe this change has something to do with why I’m picking things up a little faster. I watch the whole lesson first. I don’t even pick up my guitar for that. Then I watch the “play back” of what the lesson is *supposed* to look and sound like. THEN I go get my guitar and go back to the lesson and learn it. I’ve also finally figured out how to read the tablature, though I’m not fast at it. And I will draw chord diagrams if I need to.