Hello EcstaticRice6188 and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

You're right, there are a lot of tutorials and courses out there but there are also self help places that have been around for decades. Well known and reliable and free. One place I'd suggest is the www.w3schools.com site where they explain each step and let you try out your work and learn at your own pace.

Another place you can look around and read more about building websites and maintaining them is this site, it is a giant library of learning, often you can learn from others' mistakes. Start at the forum's Index that lists all the forums, so you can read about the various things you need to know: [webmasterworld.com...] The Index can help you find your topic of interest and each forum has a Charter and a Library of some important, helpful topics - those are on the dropdown Forum Options menu at the top, right under the title.

For your benefit, that welcome link above offers tips on using the forums' features and settings.

I’d really appreciate any beginner-friendly advice, resources, or roadmaps that helped you when you were starting out.

I highly suggest w3Schools. The examples are clear and in the right order for learning.

Most web developers these days start with WordPress and select a theme and plugins to suit the desired scenario.

Not much more is need than familiarity with installing WordPress plugins. Then you have an online page editor to create web pages - it is very easy sailing from there and that is the extent of the skillset that most web developers have today.

and that is the extent of the skillset that most web developers have today.

and also why there is an endless stream of scripted bots to cause them headaches.