The more long you learn, the more quickly you can learn new chords and the more quickly you will get in chord changes until one day you will just change the chords without even thinking about it and even when you don't know a song and play in a band and someone calls out the chords to you on the spot.

It is like learning to type on a typewriter in the old days, first searching for the letters and then one day you can do it with your eyes closed.