Queen's Gambit Accepted and Failed. How to improve through analysis?

I want to learn how to best utilize Game Analysis to pinpoint where I turbo-throw games that I had confidence in winning. Here's my sub 400 ELO analysis, and I'm curious if I'm on the right track.

In this game, I was faced with the Queen's Gambit Accepted. After black pawn takes c4, I continue development and work on taking control of the center. I was really confident in this opening!

Black plays b5, which I hadn't realized the significance of preventing my light-squared bishop from taking... so I decide to move g3 to set up an alternate route. I just now realize this ends up hanging my rook like seven moves later and I never actually take that route.

By move 8, the tension is building and I know I'm going to need to trade pieces to simplify the board.. this always gets awkward because I lack the intuition for who is going to come out on top at the end.

By move 10, I control the center but it is incredibly weak. At this point I'm crying and throwing up, so I push a knight up to protect.

At this moment I realize I am starting to get completely slaughtered, so by move 13 I YOLO a check hoping he takes with his queen but forgetting about his bishop. Strangely he just moves his king. Stockfish says this is completely winning for me.

On move 18, I find a discovered check which wins his queen, but I am under the impression she was not for the taking here... because by doing so I've apparently blown it wide open for Black. Oh, that's right... I forgot about that bishop.

Soon after, I cut my losses and resign.

I always analyze my games and slap my forehead with an "Of course!", but I haven't really discovered a concrete way of learning from my past mistakes or recalling how the engine would calculate it.

Can a beginner benefit from analysis or does it take a more seasoned intuition to learn from it?