The energy you spend defending a weak draft could have written a stronger one.

Defending work costs more than remaking it, and it produces nothing. Once you start arguing, your attention goes into justification rather than improvement, and each argument makes the current version harder to abandon because you are now invested in being right about it. The draft was never the point, the finished thing is.

When criticism arrives, ask what you would do if you had no attachment to what exists. Then spend the next hour rewriting instead of replying. The second version usually takes less time than the argument would have.