it seems like that can easily be a place to get very stuck in. sure it's progress in a way, but it also keeps you engaged with drinking, it's a moderating/harm reduction thinking which is fine if that's what you want, but if what you really want is a life free of alcohol and wanting alcohol, then this will just keep the opposite going.
just my experience; it kept everything going and had me in danger of accepting that "this is okay. it's not great, but it's okay. it will do".