Pad Thai tasted too shrimp

Tonight I made Pad Thai for the first time and I followed Josh Weissman’s recipe https://www.joshuaweissman.com/post/homemade-pad-thai I think I may have done something wrong because the end result tasted overwhelmingly like the dried shrimp smelled. I love Pad Thai from restaurants and it unfortunately only tasted vaguely similar. I am not sure if I didn’t cook the dried shrimp long enough. Needless to say I was bummed given the amount of time that went into making this.