Been there with the driveway shooting and it honestly beats fighting a crowd at a trailhead any night. My turning point was the Orion Nebula from my back patio with a cheap 50mm and a star tracker I built out of plywood scraps. First few tries were trash, but once I got a couple hours of good frames and saw those little folds of gas show up, I was hooked for good. Those wide arch shots are pretty, sure, but after you see a hundred of them they all blur together. Quiet targets make you actually work for it and the payoff feels like yours.

I mean, it's a planner. You missed three weeks because a pen leaked, not because you got hit by a bus. Redrawing a month in 20 minutes with a ruler and washi tape sounds less like some big revelation and more like you just wanted to play with tape. Your grid got messed up so you started over, that's normal, not a philosophy.