Stay with it. Like it or not you will become a victim of learning as I did.
I was a very late bloomer where fretboard knowledge was concerned because I could not fathom the value of it. I had it down 2nd nature by ear and no one was going to be able to take that away or task me on it. To know that the high E string 1st fret was the F note was meaningless information to this soloist.
And...
It still is.
But, I can name the notes now and it was through learning the chord shapes that made learning notes the easiest method for me, though I was not consciously trying to learn them. It just sort of came from years of placing the chords that the notes comprising them kinda crept into my head. I guess it became harder not to learn them after a while despite my desire to keep some artistic mystery going in my life.
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