“You haven’t flown since your PPL for various reasons “
That’s the story of a very high percentage of new PPLs, be serious if you want to be a commercial pilot of any kind you should fly your arse off, make sacrifices, desert the family, because unless you have heaps of cash and can pay for commercial training that’s what you’re going to have to do.
Instructors do vary a lot, find one you get on with and stick with him through your check flights, in between he will keep an eye on you, flying with a different instructor every time is a road to nowhere, because they all have different preferences.