It would seem this is the normal for so many beginners.

It's maybe our expectations are also normal but normally expecting too much too soon from all the internet promises of playing a song after 5minutes

Yes, holding one chord and strumming on the first note of a measure

Not a tune you hear regularly on the radio

I know I'm in the same boat.

I have written out the 1,1V, V chords in the keys and practice going between the changes occasionally adding a ii, or a vi

I am at around 75 bpm on some of the changes.

I have a couple of single melodies and riffs under my fingers so even if I'm only practising various scales and chord changes I can always play something remotely musical to myself

Frustrating as anything but still enjoying the electric , the acoustic and the ukulele

We get better

Dave