Too much focus on trying to play "perfect games"?. FIRST TIME POSTER

As soon as my Opponent plays 6....Qg5 I get excited because I know a string of 4 pretty forcing moves that leaves my opponent in a pretty tricky yet objectively fairly equal (for a 1200 like me I'd say an advantage of +2 and a pawn up on material is better but not yet winning). They end up hanging a piece and I win cleanly but that is besides the point. Is getting excited to analyse games like this A) good, because it keeps me interested in chess B) bad, because i'm focusing too much on "perfect games" and not enough on general improvement. I've played every game of chess in my life on this account (to my knowledge). Roughly 600 to 1200 elo in a little over a year. I want to reach 1600 by 2 years. Is this overreaching and is this type of studying a total waste of time that I should cut out.