I am literally getting WORSE at Mixing and Mastering. WTF happened?

I've been and Musician/Composer/ Engineer for for a couple decades. My mixes are getting WORSE. I'm losing my "ear" and for some reason I keeping FKING UP all my songs. I don't know how to get back.

It started when I think I got too dependent on using Izotope modules, especially when I jumped to Ozone 11 and Neutron 4. I got in this habit of mixing VISUALLY, following all the bells and whistles on screen that SHOWED me what sounded "good". It got to a point where I wasn't HEARING the music anymore, just trying to make it fit within the right limits and trying to match what the Modules TOLD me was "good".

And now I'm all FKD up.

I've scrapped 2 songs this month, after getting them all the way to mastering or getting ready to bounce the Pre-Master to a Stereo track.....and then realizing the entire thing is garbage. And realizing I just bounced my way to madness and composed basically TRASH. And just NUKING the original drafts and saying "FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK IIIIIIIIIIITTTT".

I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. I have no workflow. I'm mixing literally WHILE performing now. Can't even put down a track if it doesn't match perfectly with Neutron 4 EQ profiles. Obsessing about everything being sonically perfect....I can't get anything done.

My mixing ability is literally going in REVERSE.

And now I keep getting ear fatigue from trying to save all my GARBAGE takes with bad mixes.

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I have no clue what to do.

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ETA: Great replies here. Tried to respond to as many as I can, but can't catch them all.

Thanks everyone.