I absolutely believe it does.
I did not learn to ski until I was married and my wife taught me as well as she could. In my first years of skiing while living in the ski paradise of Colorado, I stayed on the intermediate slopes and tried to perfect my technique by watching other skiers and imitating what they did. It did not occur to me that the skiers on the intermediate slopes were not my best choice of role models.
I eventually had enough money to take lessons, and I learned that all the stuff I had learned by imitating those skiers was wrong, wrong, wrong! Although I never fully overcame the bad habits I had accumulated over the years, I got much, much better. I learned the thrill of skiing nearly effortlessly down a double black diamond slope, gliding down a new, deep, powder run, and weaving through the trees on a forested slope. That was way, way, way more fun than what I had been doing for the first decade or so of skiing.
When I was working on my instructor certification, we did series of dives off Key Largo. At one point I saw a young woman diving, or, rather, trying to move along on the bottom. She was grossly over-weighted and had no sense of buoyancy. She was nearly crawling. Our eyes met, and the look on her face was "I am not having any fun whatsoever. If I ever get back to the surface, I am going to end this activity forever." At that moment I made an oath that no student of mine would ever look or feel like that.
