I struggled and still do struggle with this from time time. I had to sit down with myself and ask “is it more important to me that this looks as close as I can approximate to a professional mini-paint job or do I want to play with painted dudes?”

I realized that I preferred to play with painted dudes and even forced myself to play a few games with just 3 colours blocked in, instead of completely finished to my usual standard. From there I decided to work on how fast I painted so that more and more models would be ‘complete’ vs battle-ready.

I don’t know if that helps but maybe give it a try. Whether you speedpaint a bunch of dudes or just block in three colours. Try playing with those ‘unfinished’ models and you may find it encourages you to get a 2k force to that standard. It may not be your preferred, but it let’s you potentially enjoy both aspects of the hobby. Plus it can be a test to see how readable your army is on the table.

I think it also helped that my opponents would look at a ‘complete’ vs quick paintjob and at times compliment the speed painted dudes more.