You are fortunate to have an idea setup for you, my thoughts really were more for Sly. He reminds me of me a bit back a ways. I was constantly searching never finishing. Mac put me on to Multitrackstudio. I had been bouncing around with three different DAWs. I downloaded and in just a few day rapped up all my current incomplete projects I used the built in plugs and dug in and learned. But that would never have happened if I did not have a solid sound card, and solid software. I did not need expensive plugs, I needed stability. I needed simplicity.

Having $400 worth of plugins would have made no difference if I could not get clean tracks in the can.

One thing to remember about plugs like ozone t-racks, nectar, is that they are really nothing but a bundling of what you already have. Build a FX chain with eq, compression, and limiting and you have that plugin. I remember what Mac told me "learn the tools you have and learn what they do."

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB/RB 2026, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 11 , Presonus Audiobox USB96