Too much vs. Simplifying

Have you, too, noticed the lovely homesteading videos on social medias?
Gotten carried away by promising projections from what you read in books and see on the internet about abundant gardens, food forests, livestock, processing your own milk and wool, fermenting, renovating, natural building, solar power, rockety contraptions etc?
And tried to do it all??

I'm wondering if there are others who have found the limits of their resources (time and energy, financial) and decided to adjust their envisioned Paradise. And if so, how did you adjust?

This adventure of mine has taken my analytical mind in all kinds of directions.
"I want it all" doesn't balance out with "the two of us". Which made me think of   community and tribe , but I'm not a community kind of gal.

The limits of our land proved too small for pigs. Later we had a horse since our neighbour's donkey needed a friend, but bringing and fetching him, at designated (but shifting) times, two times a day, proved not to be a sustainable option for maintaining low enough stress levels - especially when the said horse wanted to be with his donkey friend 24/7, but couldn't, and would test the robustness of gates and fences.
We now have three small sheep and they're perfect, alongside with the small-ish flock of chicken.

I tried to do all the fermenting, baking and cheesemaking - next to establishing gardens, working on my business and renovating.

When I read all of this back, I can see why there weren't a lot of successes. Some. Small and tasty. And fun. But also a lot of exhaustion and feelings of incompetence.

So I'm simplifying. I believe we can have "it all", but it needs to be in a better order. All at once is a recipe for a steep learning curve ( + ) and exhaustion ( - ).

Getting the basics in place first, and expanding from there if and when the time is right.

Have you had a Too much vs. Simplifying experience? Do share!