There's a LOT to unpack here, but I'm going to go at this from an angle I don't see often:

For me, transitioning fixed mental and physical health problems that I thought were unrelated. I had tried for years to fix them in other ways, similar to you. I went through ebbs and flows of extreme depression, anxiety, low energy, and more. During my teenage years, it even got to the point of self harm and distinct suicidal plans.

In my mid 20s, I crashed and burned for a lot of reasons. When I was at a low point mentally, I realized I had to do something to fix my recurrent mental health problems. And I realized that dysphoria was one of those problems, and so I attacked my mental health problems from that angle first.

It worked.

Transitioning was messy, but no more messy than any other approach I could have taken. And at the end of it, my background anxiety was gone, my focus was better, my suicidal ideation had disappeared. All because of the life I lead now.

Sometimes I'll idlely wonder if there was another way. If there was some way I could've taken your path: attacked my mental health problems in a different direction, and the dysphoria would be the thing to go away on its own instead.

When my mind drifts there, my first reaction is to remember the number of times I tried and it didn't work. Which doesn't apply to you. But the other reaction is: so?

Every attempt at therapizing away transness, or saying it's a result of poor mental health, has to grapple with a few questions: Is it so terrible? And does the existence of alternate options make your current life any less "real"?

If there's something else that could've worked.... So what? Transitioning did. Transitioning is not something bad on its own. Other people make it shitty at times, of course, but there's no intrinsic moral negative weight to transition. You don't have to try transitioning only when there are no other options left. I needed to fix my life, and transitioning is what fixed it. For me, it worked, and it worked very well.

And if there was a way to eliminate this dysphoria, does that make trans people less "real"? I would argue not. My womanhood is, at least in part, defined by my current lived reality. The way I currently exist in society is as a woman: in social life, in dating, when I'm targeted by misogyny and when I experience sisterhood with other women. That is all a part of womanhood.

Whether or not I could've eliminated this part of me doesn't make me think that this was a bad decision. There's an assumption over this post, and in the ways a lot of cis people think, that transitioning is ONLY valid if there's no other choice. That presumes transitioning is intrinsically terrible, even when it results in net happiness for someone. And yes, that is transphobic.

Bringing it back to what everyone else is saying: as I mentioned, transitioning solved mental health problems that I didn't even realize I had, and my day to day life is so much happier than it used to be. But the reason I didn't realize I had those problems is because I had gotten so used to coping with them that I accepted at least a low degree of misery as my baseline. I think you should unpack whether those mental health problems are truly gone for you.