Nothing can ever be too perfect but like most times we get to understand this after time has already gone, like even me I am victim of this particular " I need to have this and this before I start" and not like I have not started but just imagining it I had started all those years ago. You really can't beat experience but good and bad ones, you are bound to learn something from it.
Not even knowing too much, I think knowledge on its own is a curse and it's some sort of price we have to pay for it. That setting of a standard for yourself is good but allot of times to be frank it blinds you of the possibility of just starting and then fixing it as you grow.
I disagree with your statement that knowledge is not a curse. Knowledge is the light that gives consciousness to a person and teaches them how to live in society. Yes, even if knowledge is used correctly, if people use knowledge incorrectly, it is definitely wrong. Just like people learn to hack and hack people's personal things. Yes, it is knowledge, but they use it incorrectly. Similarly, many people take knowledge to the right path, just like a teacher shows his child the right path and guides him. This is a correct way of knowledge. You are completely wrong that knowledge is a curse. Knowledge is not a curse. Knowledge is that tree that grows and flourishes inside a person. Everything can be stolen, but not knowledge. Knowledge is an eternal wealth. People have reached their lives through knowledge. But yes, if it is said that knowledge is being misused and differences are being created between people in the wrong way, then the increase in knowledge is wrong. Knowledge always shows a person the right path, but it depends on you how you take it. Every person's way of thinking and understanding is different.