If you owned a restaurant and got a Yelp review like “the food was great but the ambiance was a turn-off” what would you do?

Yes. Or: “The hammer technically works when it comes to getting nails into walls, but it’s uncomfortable to hold.”

I am blessed that my crises of faith mostly hit before even starting work on an idea I think is clever.

Accomplishes the same thing - minimizing any potential success - but further upstream.

In this case, it was something I needed, but I took it way beyond a scrappy tool just for me, and turned it into a full production level wizard based GUI app.

I guess not all of that was wasted effort.