How much editing is "expected" nowadays?

I've always had issues with my timing and it's the main thing that makes me feel shitty about my playing. Lately I've been resorting to editing my takes a lot for my recording projects, and I'm not sure what to think of it.

Part of me feels good to finally be able to make something that sounds good (instead of the constant self-criticism). But not surprisingly, I also feel like a fraud.

And I don't know if this is comparable, but I've been thinking about and paying more attention to how artists sound on the record vs live. And how people talk about being accustomed to "perfected/quantized" music so much that anything else feels wrong. And it got me wondeing, just how much are musicians "expected" to edit their takes nowadays? Where do we draw the line between the accepted vs being dishonest?