Each step is the step. When it comes to the words utilized, what applies more than the cultivating of skillful means?
Yes, "leaning into practice" is another phrase that indicates how easy missing the mark is. The conceptual mind and karma are factors that drive the lean into a desired result and have a deep tendency to motivate a dualistic approach to getting something, anything. Appeasing a desire to "attain" enlightenment is the real hindrance. The concept of non-dual can only call attention to that, especially when you are left with the duality of duality/non-duality. And there it is.
Practice and study can yield many valid results concerning antidotes to suffering. Yet, we can discover that the suffering and its antidotes are in the arena of duality, also. They are useful both practically and psychologically.
For me, the levels, quests, politics and personality that revolve around the word "enlightenment" can be like a person running around frantically screaming, "I want a body!"
We can relax into this, as it has come to be, abiding in formless awareness without more or less.