I'd say a large part will be what your exposed to at the field.

I travel a fair bit with my planes and my trailer, but if I wanted to say fly pattern competitvely I'd have to drive at least 4-5 hours to compete if I wanted to more than once a year - same thing for pylon (which I beleive would be even further) - same for IMAC. It's very hard to get into competitive flying cold turkey, IE go buy a pattern plane and teach yourself how to fly the sequences - if not impossible.

If you want to fly anything non-competitevly it's easier because you build it then fly it. You don't need others around to fly it.

My field is the "ultimate" trainer field. Out of 120ish members I'd say 50% can't do a roll with any success aftery flying more than a year. I'd say maybe 10-15 could even identify a snap roll and perhaps 10 could actually perform one on command. Out of those 120 members maybe 5 can identify a waterfall/elevator etc.. and only 2 can hold a hover.

Its a great field but it's not the place to pick up tips on advanced aerobatics obviously. Just pointing out that what your exposed to will make a huge difference. I doubt many if any members who come to our field will ever be great aerobatics if they fly weekends only because they'll never really see any to get any interest going.