If I were to answer that question candidly; it’s all too easy to get caught going down a rabbit hole without anything to show for it. However, one can’t really know that until one climbs down the hole, can we? 
So the overriding advice I might give someone is you have to ask yourself; what am I trying to achieve? Perfection? Or just close enough?
I’ll link to the optical clear filament challenge of last year here. The goal was to see if we can get true optical clarity out of so-call transparent filament. I found only one that could do so.
On the right, you have just close enough. On the left you have hours of trial and error. Which one was worth it? That’s subjective.
Perfect? Or just a good camera angle and lighting?
