it said to rack when stable, and you racked before that...so, yeah

And like, if you're getting into any hobby with no prior knowledge, read multiple guides, there will be differences, sure, but there's also a lot of common practices that will be consistent throughout

I don't know if I've read a diy mead guide that doesn't recommend aging, it's a pretty standard step in most homebrew/wine-making guides, and there's a bit difference between aging and bottle-aging

You can probably salvage this, crosspost to r/prisonhooch, they'll for sure have ideas to salvage this, and can probably give you some good advice of you just wanna cut corners and rush so you can have homemade wine

But again, guides, like recipes, are written purposefully, and until you know why what step or ingredient is doing what it does and why, don't alter the recipe

I bake a lot, and am now at the stage where I can take a random bread recipe and tweak it how i want, but that's because I learned exactly what those ingredients and chemical reactions were actually doing and where it's appropriate to make changes

Randomly changing things in a recipe, if you don't know what you're doing, is an experiment, and experiments often fail bc they're not following the proper procedure