Fast typing on ortholinear + QWERTY

I think this is more a vent/emotional support post than anything else, but I'm hoping there might be some helpful advice you might be able to give me.

I've done transcription as a job (these days just a side gig) for about 15 years, I type a bit above 120wpm on a normal keyboard, and I recently got a Glove80 to solve some wrist issues. It feels great and I can tell it's going to be worth the learning curve, but that learning curve is still painful. I'm typing at about 40wpm with it (on default monkeytype settings, so that's not even with punctuation and capitalisation) and pushing against decades of muscle memory is insanely daunting.

The biggest thing that's absolutely killing me is the letter C. I've got the bad (?) habit of typing it with my index finger on staggered keyboards, so I'm being forced to fix that now because the glove80 is ortholinear and I keep hitting V instead. But I'm noticing that there's a very good reason I typed C with my index finger, which is that so many common words have it next to E, and typing C-E with the middle finger is slow and feels bad. Words ending in C-E-D are even worse.

It's got me thinking QWERTY is just absolute trash for this column alone, but I really don't want to go down the path of learning Colemak. At that point I'd probably just hang up the transcription hat. Has anyone got any tips that'll make things a bit easier for me? I'm feeling a bit disheartened because it feels like even once I do retrain my muscle memory, I'm going to be weighed down by the ortholinear layout preventing workarounds that compensate for QWERTY's shittiness.