You surely learned from the experience. It’s good to throw things away. Also it can’t all be bad? At the very least you understand the problem space better now and like any good researcher you now know a path that does not work . Code whatever it’s like a puzzle maz… you have infinite doors to choose from and you have to pick paths to put the puzzle together… now you know a path with some bricks that sucks in at least enough ways to have you deciding to seriously consider choosing a different door that no doubt will also have crappy trade offs…. All software is trash pile of one trade off vs another