Could not agree more. Self taught programmer here too. For such a long time chasing "perfection" had me stuck where I was not finishing any projects.
Taking a step back I decided that finishing projects is what really gives me happiness. They don't have to be perfect or world changing. That coupled with detachment from how the project is received has helped me so much.
Congrats on all your projects. Inspiring!
Nowadays I see more beauty in the end product and refactoring. I still keep that idea of perfection in my mind and do my best to write good code from the start, I just don't let any of it become a blocker.
I'm more efficient, stress-free and productive as a result. And I don't feel as repulsed when working with other people's code.
Seriously, the only kind of perfect code is the one that has been proven correct. Or in fact the proof itself.
Otherwise you're talking about "code we think does the thing and looks nice".