You seem to be in a pretty good place in terms of results and expectations of ongoing effort.  You will find different opinions on the subject of daytime awareness work.  A vocal minority thinks it's all BS, others believe it is critical.  I'm in the latter camp: to be lucid on a regular basis at night, we need to be lucid on a regular basis during the day.  It's common sense, backed up by the hundreds/thousands of years of LD practice by the Tibetan dream and sleep yoga practitioners, the original on-purpose lucid dreamers who gave us the notions of daytime visualization of dreams, setting  intent at bedtime and every time when falling asleep (MILD, basically), dream recall, WBTB, WILD, awareness work, and much more.   Our dreaming self is our waking self, with the added baggage of the physiological impairments of access to memory and a "foggy" awareness common to the dream state.   Develop a much higher awareness in waking life, and you will carry this higher base level of awareness into the dream state as well.    If you live your waking life on autopilot, reacting mindlessly to the day's experiences without reflection, you will live your dreams in the same way.

To be sure, lucidity requires a perfect storm of conditions and preparation, all coming together, which takes planning and intent to carry out.   It always seems to require effort, both in noticing wakings during the night, and in awareness work during the day.     Everyone needs to find their own path to balance all these things.

The great thing about mindfulness is that it is not just for lucid dreaming.   It benefits your waking life just as much as your dreaming life.   So you don't have that baggage of "doing all this just for dreaming."    It doesn't take "thinking about LDing all day", but having the subject on your mind *does* help, clearly, as this is a form of incubation.   If you're never thinking about LDing during the day, odds are you won't be thinking about it in dreams, either.

I believe a holistic approach is the est: people who try to live one way (autopilot, non-reflective, low-awareness, non-mindful) during the day, and hope to have a bright, , stable, lucid awareness at night during dreams are the ones who are fooling themselves.

To be sure, WBTB, SSILD, DEILD, and all the _ILDs have their place and add extra chances for lucidity.   But *being* a lucid person, 24x7, exercising self-awareness, reflection, and memory as much as you can, will additionally increase the chances, considerably.   It will also lead to much more satisfying, vivid life experiences, both waking and dreaming.   Yes, it is a life long effort, but it's well worth it.  Only you can decide if it's worth it to you.