I tend to refractor too much but that kind-of makes me terrible at one-man projects, since I know enough about my code to see all the mistakes and all the possibilities, working with others, even if I do sometimes begrudge it, forces me to take a bigger picture look at things and say this is good enough.

Probably the ideal thing for me is to do a project where I am coordinating with others but they are working independently, like microservices for instance where you can look at the back end and say this looks like crap let me tear it up without blocking anyone else's progress.

So I'm surprised by the assertion that that sort of code perfectionism is good for one-man projects, but to each their own.