Well, I've been playing Dominion habitually (and improving at it) since Seaside released. I put a lot of time into Isotropic, which provided a lot of strong human opponents, and my Goko rating is currently a 3706. I even had the pretty unique fortune of playing the #1 player on the ladder at the time, Obi Wan Bonogi, and getting smashed by KC-KC-Possessions. Nine of my turns taken by him later, the slaughter was hilariously over.
So while I have a ways to go, I've been around the block. My objective isn't to become the best Dominion player I can be, as quickly as possible, though. Don't take my slog as a complaint, I'm enjoying the time I'm putting in.
That was the point of my report, to provide a passionless control to the experiment, for others' comparison. For people to see what a default run through the Adventures slog would be like, and to give stats for my run. I'm probably one of the few people that doesn't see it as a drag.
Nevertheless, I appreciate the advice, guys - I know you don't mean to be condescending.