The basic insight, that happiness comes from family, is a truism at this point.
My focus has always been my family and instead of flying them everywhere (that did happen once though: I had to do a client on-site and I said “either my family comes with me or I don’t go. There are many jobs but I only have one family”, and they flew us all in), I’ve consistently chosen remote jobs with no mandatory travel instead of the slightly better paying option with “relocation package”, or frequent traveling.
I’m aware I’m lucky as lots of people don’t have that choice, but I think in my industry (IT) a lot of people maximize for career progress when there’s plenty of good-paying family-friendly opportunities too.
In your case, you had to explicitly choose to take the path of family over maximizing career progression.
Jack Nicklaus didn't have to do that - he could easily have both. Honestly, I'd rather read stories about how people like you created a healthy work-life balance than more laudatory articles focusing on unattainable hero worship.