Perfection can never be achieved. It is the one thing that all life strives towards. If perfection is achieved, we have stopped evolving.
Have you ever spent so much time and effort to make something perfect that you lost sight of your original intent? In retrospect, would you say the energy expended towards perfection was properly directed? Did the effort align with the result? Did you get in your flow state?
I believe perfection as a concept is just an illusion. And not so much an illusion really, but a perception. A perception derived from witnessing many individual elements harmonizing in a way that it becomes difficult to imagine a way to make improvements.
Perfection is simplicity: Nothing to add, nothing to take away. In this regard, perfection should not require an inordinate amount of energy to achieve. Combine the right elements and arrange them in such a way that your intended result is achieved.
How do we know which elements to gather? How do we arrange them? By increasing our understanding: The better our understanding of an environment and its members, the better our chances of making the right choices.