"I used such-and-such plane using such-and-such method and I got minimal tear-out."

I see this all the time here, on YouTube and other sites that I read. So he got tear-out.

What do you do about it? Do you keep planing until it's gone, use filler, put the project in the kindling pile and start over or just live with it?

I've gotten some really nasty tear-out on the pine I'm working with - some of it's 1/16" deep. There's plenty of wood if I want to plane all that away but I don't want to. It's a lot of wood and I should have been done with this project three weeks ago.