I really am glad if you want to distro hop, I have done it many times. Play around, really try to see what the developers intended. It is a learning curve.
But speaking from my own experience, I am not too technically gifted and I enjoyed trying new things but I kept coming back to Mint. I feel there is nothing wrong if you come back. It's like life, don't be scared of trying new things, try, but nothing wrong if you know what you like and come back to it, even if it is a bit boring.
But experiment, go mad, my point I wanted to make is the worst case is you have a nice distro to fall back to.
