Is it OK if I hate a piece I wrote several months after publishing it? I wrote a blog post for a magazine run by scholars. A few months later, I read the post again. I hate it! I can think of three-four different ways I could have written it differently. Granted, I was asked to comment on an ongoing political issue at the time and didn’t have enough information back then. However, I could have organized it differently, omitted paragraphs, and focused on different issues. Is this normal? Do you have similar experiences? If I don’t like what I wrote four months ago, what would have established scholars thought of my piece back then?
Short answer : Yes

Why - because hindsight is the equivalent of 20:20 vision and writing for tomorrow is like looking through fog...

So, let it go, if there is nothing to apologise for, go and concentrate on the next one - bringing in your experience of this one...