Have to agree with you and I wouldn’t think of Tribal style except my teacher is laid up with injuries and the nearest classes are with someone who specializes in tribal.
I’ve gotten pretty good at making costumes for myself.
I had my son years before I got serious with my dancing but found it helped get rid of the weight I gained when I gave up smoking.
I was never a smoker, but I put on weight with stress in Oklahoma - unemployment, and four children in five years - and dancing helped a lot. Habiba wanted me to dance at a festival when I was a week from delivery with ... Elen, I think. I said I should have a sign that said, “Top breeder!” There were a lot of Moslems in Norman, OK, studying petroleum engineering and geology at the University of Oklahoma ;-).
There’s nothing to lose in learning a new style, and you might really like it. To me, it seems like American Tribal underemphasizes the real skills of Middle Eastern dance ... the isolations, the individual relation to the music ... but it’s fun and it’s exercise.