Being impressive and being useful are different. Usefulness ages better.

Impressiveness is aimed at an audience and depends on comparison, which means it needs maintaining and fades as the standard rises. Usefulness is aimed at a problem, and something that genuinely helps keeps helping regardless of who is watching. Over a long enough stretch, the useful people are the ones still being asked for and still working. Impressive is expensive to keep up.

Ask whether what you are making is designed to be admired or to be used. If it is the first, find one way to make it actually help somebody this week.