Rerouting doesn’t mean you failed the trip. Even pilots change course mid-flight.

Changing course reads as failure mostly because the original plan was announced and the new one was not. Adjusting is what competence looks like when conditions move, and refusing to adjust is what stubbornness looks like from the outside. The thing you are managing is where you end up, not a route chosen while you knew less.

If you are mid-change, say plainly what the aim still is and what has shifted. Hold the goal and let the path be wrong. Most people who look like they went straight there simply never narrated their turns.