It was probably something I did. The original tutorial I followed had everything in one file and didn't get into anything about imports. I started splitting everything up arbitrarily and started tossing imports into the files that complained about missing dependencies and ended up getting overwhelmed because nothing worked.

I'm sure if I'd taken the time to try and fix it I eventually could have and at this point i've had more experience with a bunch of different languages, so I'm sure it's not as bad as I remember.

I imagine it's one of those cases where if i were to go back and laugh about how stupid I was, but ya know, those first impressions.