I was recently helping someone with a job application, and by the end of it, we’d tweaked their written submission close to twenty times.
The third, fourth, and fifth drafts weren’t clear enough. Nor was the seventeenth. But after about twenty iterations, they arrived at an output they were happy with.
A lot of people will stop at draft number two. But sometimes it takes much much more to get to the required level of quality. I admire the tenacity of folks who don’t even blink twice when it comes to iterating until things feel right.