Yeah, the roots were about to start rotting then.

It should be fine now for a couple years.

Like I said tho, pretty sure that plant species is super picky. If it still dies you might want to try like a rubber plant or something. They’re pretty easy to keep alive, which make them a lot more forgiving.

It’s like learning how to drive a manual transmission on an old Civic instead of a Ferrari.

You can make a lot more mistakes and learn from them with ruining it.

Start with what’s easy, and then move on to more difficult options that you’d enjoy more.

But damage from under watering is always more gradual and less serious than over watering for any plant. I just water mine when the soil is visibly dry or leaves are droopy, and I’ve even managed to keep a fiddle leaf alive and growing for a couple years now. If I had started with that, I’d have killed a dozen learning the basics.