It will only get worse, I'm afraid. The looking away helps the problem you mention, but other things will come along. I've been struggling with cataracts for a few years -- small ones, but right in the center of the dominant eye. If I look at a street lamp at night, I see a bunch of almost discreet, blurry lamps.
For shooting, I took the attitude that the center of a blur is still the center. Worked OK for a while, but for the last couple of years, I've been getting vertical shots I can't "tune out of a load." All rifles. All ranges. Changing the load doesn't help. Slowly reached the conclusion, it's my eyes.
You have to make a decision -- In my case, it was risk the surgery for the sake of shooting, or keep the vision I have, which was good enough for my job.
I know, cataract surgery is suppose to be foolproof. But things do go wrong, all surgery is a serious decision to make. For me, things are getting bad enough that I will have to try lens replacement pretty darn soon, but that doesn't make it any easier.
So try the things suggested above, but do think long & hard before going under the knife, or especially the laser.
Good luck,
Charles