If you can get/keep the soil, light levels, and temperature in the sweet spot zone, and do some other regular root maintenance every 2 years or so, you should be able to keep most houseplants in a high state of vitality for decades or generations. The reason a large fraction of growers have come to look at houseplants as 'disposable' is, they are expecting their plants to cheerfully deal with conditions at or beyond the limits they're genetically programmed to tolerate.

You might find this helpful.

It's a basic overview that will allow you to avoid almost ALL the pitfalls you are likely to encounter early on your path toward a green thumb.

When you think of how much water your plant needs/wants in the soil, think 'damp', or 'moist' - like a sponge that's been thoroughly wrung out. Soils that remain wet or soggy for extended periods make the job of keeping plants healthy and attractive much more difficult and very often frustrating. When I took up bonsai as a hobby (before the net was a thing), I failed miserably because understanding how soils work and how water behaves in soils is a critical aspect of that endeavor. While it may not be as absolutely critical when growing plants in larger/deeper pots, it's still crucially important, something you'll eventually find out if your interest doesn't wane. Learning to recognize high quality soils, or make your own, is probably the largest step forward you can make on your container-growing journey. I know that, if I had someone to tell me that when I first started growing things in containers, I would have arrived at the threshold of being able to keep healthy almost anything I tried to grow in pots 3-4 years earlier than I did.

Hopefully you'll read the overview and it will leave you with questions you want answers to. That's the MO that moves you ahead farthest and fastest. Trial and error is a painfully slow way to learn, because in most cases, you need some measure of stored knowledge to even be sure what you think you're seeing is actually what is occurring.

Al