In the days that I was learning to fly - I have retired now so learning has stopped, I can remember having a long chat with a couple of highly experienced ATPLs about such matters. They were discussing an American friend of theirs who had just arrived in his 747 after a go-around. "I thought that you never went around," they said to him.
"There is a first time for everything," he replied.
NEVER be afraid to go around for all the reasons correctly stated above. The instructor with whom you were flying probably did not think it was too bad so let you continue to sort it out. If it was getting bad, he would have found his hands on the controls without thinking! He is a better judge as to how bad it was than you are and you would have done much better and created a much better impression in his mind if you had gone around. Maybe that is a reason why you did not go solo then.
P.P.