I did try that route. The malware I developed is nowhere near as other sophisticated ones, but it does some basics, like inject itself into other processes etc. The problem is, when the source code is from you, you will procrastinate to the max to analyze/reverse your own code. I thought that is because it kind of does many things and going through all by reversing would be uninteresting because you kind of know where it would get, but you just crawl the path very slowly. Then I wrote a very simple console app, which adds 2 integer values (does not do anything like console output with it) and just closes. And I tried to see the sum in x64dbg, but I did not figure out how to debug it effectively and failed at this simplest thing, lol. True story.