I with you but my layoff has been longer...like 20 years....my last good car was the Losi JRX-2. I know NOTHING about brushless.
Do you have any resources to share? I have questions about sensored vs sensor-less as well.
I'm loving the new battery and brushless technologies I just don't know what the heck I'm doing or looking at. I bought a RC10T4.1 brushless RTR and compared to the Evader EXT brushed I had it was faster and ran longer on a charge. So I upgraded the Evader to brushless but I wish I had done some more research before buying the ESC/motor combo I purchased (Duratrax Element by Castle).