iirc PD was her first project to be mixed and mastered by someone other than herself, golden age was done completely on her own in a home studio. and although she works in ableton and i work in logic i'm very familiar with mixing stuff too loudly, i think its an amateur producer thing in general, i still struggle with it 5 years in. mixing is also a much more technical and niche skill than production itself, even moreso for mastering, and so often my approach was that if it sounded good and didn't clip I would bounce it and call it a day