You know off course that Godot never came…
Let me put it another way. As you so rightly said, you have to put in the thousands of hours. There is no short cut to success in this very hard business. However a strange thing happens if you put in those hours. Especially if you stick to one instrument. You find you are able to recognise moves you have seen before. Such as how it reacts to news. For example after the first reaction does it go up on bad news or down on good. Its telling you something if you know how to listen. How does it react to on an oversize or undersize bar. The list is endless. You cannot get that from an EA. That comes with the thousands of hours. Nor does not come to all. I know some who have been trading for 10 years but have got nowhere. They do not know how to listen and jump from system to system and instrument to instrument. No MT4 or MT5 EA is going to help them there.
That is not to say that one cannot develop an automated system that works. Just look at Renaissance Capital in the US. They develop EAs using AI that learn as they go and make huge amount of money. So much so that they are closed to new investment. However these are not made for sale. Each EA costs them on average over $3m to develop. Thats a far cry from the $99 all winning grid or martingale or whatever the vendors offer.
I realise writing all this is entirely futile. No one wants to hear it so its aimed mainly at you as I get the impression you are almost there having put in the work. My suggestion, given with the best of intentions, is forget the EA and continue as you were.