It's a journey -- if you look into it ALL I'll look forward to hearing about your role as a maintainer of the project. Like any other journey worth making it begins with a single step, and proceeds with single steps thereafter.
But also, don't feel like you have to look into ALL of it. Most any corner of Bitcoin you go into will be enriching even if it's all you do (though admittedly it is still possible to end up with a sophomoric level of understanding, but you seem particularly primed to avoid the dangers thereof, having chosen the name "Humility"). It's also worth noting that for as deep down the technical hole you can go, Bitcoin is a multidisciplinary beast, and that whether you specialize or generalize, there will always be people out here that know more than you about something. At the end of the day it's not a map where X marks the spot, but rather, a map that is constantly being both expanded at the edges and enhanced in terms of its fidelity (as well as layers underground and into the sky).
Freedom be like that sometimes.