My experience tells me that throwing everything away and starting again can look like the easy way forward. You get to discard all those mistakes! But it's not just my experience that says it's a huge mistake: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/. Or perhaps you prefer a non-technical, parable version: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/784709-suppose-that-a-great-commotion-arises-in-the-street-about.