As an older dreamer who learned to LD without any of the popular techniques (mostly because they pretty much didn't exist yet), and who is by no means a natural LD'er, I think I can address this.
Techniques don't make you lucid; You make you lucid. Lucidity is all about mindset, period, and techniques are little more than handy aids to guide that mindset. From what you wrote, it sounds like you did a good job developing a lucid mindset, so it makes sense that you were able to become lucid. And yes, you certainly don't need anything to make it, other than a good mindset... anyone telling you you need techniques to become lucid is wrong, I think.
That said, you actually did do some work to become lucid. For instance, "just programming" yourself to remember your dreams and to expect to be lucid is a pretty big step, even if it didn't feel like one (and even if, for you, it came easily). You weren't doing established techniques, but you were teaching yourself to move beyond the "natural" setting of non-lucidity toward an expectation of lucidity.
So you might not be a natural (I personally don't think there are very many of those anyway, if any, BTW), but you should count yourself lucky that you went straight to the core of successful LD'ing -- mindset -- and didn't raise the importance of techniques to a point of distraction, which so many people do.
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