thats when you surrender to the folk gods and just start playing cajón

I’d absolutely encourage you to continue reading the Bobiverse series. It’s when I first realized my love for sci-fi in book form. The next few books, IMO, REALLY improve upon the stories introduced in the first book and then add a whole bunch of new ones. No major spoilers, but it manages to interrogate some age-old SciFi tropes like the prime directive, agency for clones, governance in space, blah blah blah. It does all of this in an extraordinarily personal way where you see these problems get engineered around (like how Project Hail Mary by Weir is largely just a book about a dude solving problems) by a ton of really interesting computer dudes with endless time on their hands.