Where can an old AI jockey go to get back on the horse?

I got on the AI bandwagon in 2022 with a lot of people, loved it, but then got distracted with other projects, only dabbling with existing systems I had (A1111, SD. Next) here and there over the years. I never got my head around ComfyUI, and A1111 and SD. Next are intermittently workable with only the smallest checkpoints on my potato (Win 10/ 32gb ram, 3060 with 12gb VRAM). Even with them, the vast majority of devs on extensions I used are just ghosting now. I got Forge Neo. but it's seemingly got the same issues going on.