Great to hear about your progress!
Though it’s not official CtC, one of my favorite threads on here is one that discusses your 5th point:
Rather than coming back to them (unless they are vital for passages you play), an alternative is to just keep avoiding them since they are inherently slow for most people. We’re conditioned to think everything we are bad at needs more work. Many successful players, consciously or not, took the alternative approach of just capitalizing on what came naturally for them 
Life’s too short to be good at everything and almost no one is the absolute best at everything. Eric Johnson can’t crosspick like Steve Morse. Allan Holdsworth couldn’t alternate pick like Al Di Meola. Rather than address these ‘weaknesses’, they all made careers out of their strengths. You sound like you’re already on your way to success, so congratulations and keep up the great work!