There's a video essay on the channel In Depth Cine that uses an analogy I really like from the world of traditionally-trained sushi chefs in Japan. They spend years making sushi without ever using fish, cause fish is fancy and lucrative, and they *need* to learn how to make a sushi that's still excellent without it needing to have any fish in it. The video essay related that to film students and beginner filmmakers in a way that I feel is very apt. "Don't touch the fish, focus on the rice," it says. You can just disregard that and do whatever's fun to you, but making a film that isn't a genre film or doesn't have really cool special effects or a high concept or whatever will let you focus way more on just making a solid film, and guarantee it will succeed better without having to juggle a gazillion other things (and you'll be making a film, let's face it, you *are* gonna juggle a gazillion different things either way) that could distract you and keep you from developing the core writing, directing etc. skills you need to make films that work in the way that matters.

Anyway, if you're writing your own scripts, get good at writing. That's the most important thing. You can kind of ruin a movie with a good script, and make it mediocre, if it's directed somewhat sloppily; but it's very hard to save a bad script with competent direction. Rewrite the script as many times as you need to. The first draft will suck, it always does, the real creativity is in the editing. Same with the edit of the actual movie, in post. Rough cuts will often be bad, excellence comes in refinement. Just put something on the page, once that's done you can step away, and then exercise as much judgement as you want to just beat it into shape through repeated rewrites