See I can reason through guides and say to myself "These are great suggestions" and then if anything is missing, I'll just go "Oh this other guide suggested this" and implement that as well.

You can make a watch-only wallet.

So for example, Glacier protocol suggests going to blockstream.info (https://glacierprotocol.org/docs/check-balance/overview/) to check your wallet balance. Which is insane. Just make a watch only wallet and don't dox your whole stack to a company lol. Right, so I would then follow probably the sparrow guide on connecting to Bitcoin core and setting up electrum and all of that stuff.