I don’t know how useful all my Brazilian jiu Jitsu metaphors are to others 
but this reminds me of something that I see with people starting out in martial arts.
The ultimate goal is to arrive at a place where I am able to use sophisticated technique and strategy to ‘neutralise’ pure strength and athleticism.
I often get new guys just starting out saying that they feel bad that they are not being technical and only using strength. The thing is that for the first few years of training they have to do exactly that to realise that there is a more efficient way, they can’t just jump to this idealised concept of ‘only using technique’ because at the moment they have none! Yet they have to start somewhere.
If they are to stop now by castigating themselves for ‘only using strength’ they will never give themselves a chance of bit by bit integrating technique and strategy in place of brute strength and athleticism.
If we all start ‘dirty’ then the best way to proceed is to accept this and get stuck in.