Am I doing okay?

Welcome @Triforce0fWisdom to the CCFS Board! I too only found the board after months of playing the game. I have been enjoying the interaction with the other players on the forum ever since.
You are doing just fine! Congrats to be playing at the 1700 levels. There are about 48 characters in the game now. Some of the characters / costumes are a limited time offer or a promotion item from the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note release. There are other threads here that the players are posting their Scrapbook. 
There are 1980 levels now on the Win10 version of the game and 1920 levels on mobile. New levels are released every Wednesday. Win10 version is always slightly ahead of the mobile version due to less restrictions on the app store.

Enjoy the game and crush on! Cheers

Hi @Triforce0fWisdom .
Congrats for reaching in level 1719 and you keep going more and more.
Since you reached in that level, you can enter here in this club:
https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/262445/1700-club

And as @flew66 said, there are 48 characters in total on this game (counting and the limited ones, of course) !
You can check this other's scrapbooks here and post and your own one too:
https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/261028/post-your-scrapbook-how-many-characters-and-costumes-did-you-get-so-far#latest