Possibly 22...Rf8 first might have come into consideration.

Really turning the screws. This middle game has been characterised by lucrative short term investments by White.

very nicely annotated

Rather a dire outcome from Black's flash of aggression (...f5). But look at the role played by the long light-square diagonal! Time was, I used almost exclusively to play the English Opening, in the hope of just such middle games. Sometimes I got them! Entertaining game - and instructive, too.