I hope to god not, oh ex-neo!
It must have been only a month or two when you were musing on things far removed from what you are musing on now.
That in itself signifies progress. I've been at the guitar since I was five, some 34 years, and I do the fingerpicking thing.
As your hands, and especially your fingers get more dextrous with use, more familiar to their surroundings, you WILL find that a lot of things will naturally fall into place.
More or less what you have already experienced I would think. I play in many different tunings, and each one has it's own 'rules', so to speak. But your fingers learn the lesson and sync it with your brain.
At times you will feel that the stream of energy from the soul to the fingers will get more and more steady as your fingers develop an instinctiveness of their own.
Don't worry about it, Bon, It WILL come...... and it wont go away.
Obscure enough for you?
B.