I’m a mid aged adult & learning from scratch since early March and ‘reasonably’ diligent although waning in motivation lately and why I’m looking at courses like Piano For All.
Have done my due diligence to date having found/read some theory books, found consistent Youtube teachers, and grasp the importance of doing things correctly with fingering, learning scales, etc… Being a tech guy I don’t find the theory difficult – playing on the other hand not so easy.
When starting out I came across a good TED Talk by Sven Haefliger, about how adults lose interest in ‘traditional’ methods – to which my answer is yes he nailed that.

I’m looking at Piano For All but to be combined with Synthesia so as to come at this from various angles. Again, I don’t want to toss the formal stuff and feel Piano For All sort of does toss the formal stuff… ??
I still want to sight read but thinking a focus on actually ‘playing’ would be good at least for a little while to learn some articulation, etc… and really just trying to find the best method(s) to do so while buttressing my motivation by learning some actual music which ‘should’ further cement the theory. Or am I completely off in that logic?

PFA “seems” all about chords & playing with “some” theory – at least enough to grasp the processes he’s using. And as per your advice and another I came across will read that last book at the beginning.

On the other hand and what I think will aid in the theory/sight reading is Synthesia which is essentially scrolling sheet music that has exercises to train sight reading with fingering. And there there is a truck load of MIDI files beyond their library to choose from including whatever I’m sure PFA has…so basically picking up where PFA leaves off given it doesn’t do MIDI. Makes sense?
BTW – the falling rectangles can be shut off as I’m not interested in memorizing falling rectangles but reading music.

I VERY much welcome what I’m sure will be honest opinions on such matters.
Please and thank you, best regards.
Orion