I tried the high RR approach for a while. 1:3, 1:4, sometimes higher. On paper it looked great. In practice I couldn't handle watching a trade pull back 80% of the way to my stop before eventually hitting target. I'd close it early almost every time and completely ruin the math that made the strategy work.
Switched to focusing on smaller wins with a higher winrate and everything felt more natural. Lower stress, easier to sit in trades, and I actually let my system do its thing. The returns aren't as flashy but they're real and they're consistent.
The mistake most people make is chasing the approach that looks best on a backtest instead of the one they can actually execute under pressure. A 40% winrate strategy with 1:3 RR only works if you actually hold to the 1:3. If emotions make you cut at 1:1 every time the whole thing breaks down.
Neither approach is wrong. But one of them is wrong for you specifically and the only way to find out is being honest about how you actually behave in a live trade, not how you plan to behave.