Pretty full of yourself aren't you?
Thats exactly the reason i stopped with Silat after 9 years.
I got introduced when i was 19 yrs old to a guy named Raymond Ingram, and later to his dad Jim Ingram. Raymond was living in my hometown so he became my steady trainingspartner.
After 9 years of training with them on a daily base i quitted because i wanted to broaden my horizon. So i went on looking for more Silat, checked out most public lessons in my area but most teachers were so full of themselves, last school i tried was Bukti Negara and the people were nice but the art didn't felt right to me. In between i trained a year eskrima privatly and Krav Maga.
Last recent failure was a JKD trail lesson were the guys were so full of themselves.
Now i found a new home at the Ving Tsun school in my hometown wich has a very nice teacher and all really awesome people.
It's a bit of a dilemma actually, in one part we need to have faith in the system we currently learning, but in other hand, by being blind how can we acknowledge our weakness?
The founder of the art I currently learning, need to learn to many masters, until fate guided him to his last two masters, and learning the flaws of the systems he had learned.
There was a quote from a grand master, that said, there is no art that is bad, it just the level of the practitioner it self is still low, once the level is high, the art will look good.
And about "full", even in the land of its birth, there are many "full" people, but the good thing is, the people at the top of the chain that i ever met are all really humble, that you can't guess from his/her attitude, that the one person can literally kill people in a snap.
It is a sad thing that you haven't met your clicks in silat, but again i myself met my path by accident, not because of careful and deliberate plan that i ended up learning this style.
But I'm happy for you since at least you finally found the system that match your hearth.
There was a nice story: When the student finished learning for the master, the master order the student to learn other ma, and comeback and test his new skill against the master, and on and on, until the master can be defeated by the student, the master it self without hesitation would look to learn from the last master his student learn to defeat him.
btw. Have you travel to Indonesia? the Grand Master of Mustika Kwitang H. Zakaria in 1960's in by invitation by the then President, put an awe on Masatoshi Nakayama and Donn F. Draeger for his unarmed performance and slick machete works.
Even though he is well known for his students achievement in competitions, and one of the founder of one of the biggest mass organization in Jakarta, he still lives in his humble home, with barely a furniture in it. In his old age, he also still teach in Kwitang Area.