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I suppose that you have discovered a useful substitute for the admonition to "Squint" to see the large values areas and eliminate (for the time being) the distracting nuances within. (If you get the larger value masses right, the nuances can often be underplayed to greater effect than if you start with them and "work backwards" toward the larger value shape.)
Sometime in the second year of my studio work my eyesight, which had been throughout my life better than 20/20, began to fail, which of course complicated everything -- though perhaps I was relieved of the duty to squint quite as often! But I did begin to have to wear mild magnifying lenses to be able to work right at the canvas or drawing board. And if I gained the ability to see larger value areas without distraction, I lost some of the acuity I had to see nuance when it came time to see it. So I became an abstract expressionist.
No, not really -- though sometimes I think it might make things easier.
I do know that many of us work under a variety of physical limitations, but we're by nature creative people who can either work around them or even put them to use. Who knew that poor eyesight would be what helped you "see"?
I wonder what use I could make of a troublesome, lifetime hearing loss?
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