Nice shots!
I went through a couple mediocre lenses and cameras before I settled on a Canon 6D and the non-L 85mm and 35mm lenses. I wish I had just gone there first. Full frame makes a huge difference with the quality of the images. I do not have to worry about noise as much as I did with my APSC cameras. Prime lenses, good ones especially, are more likely to get you to F2, or the other side of it. A blown out wide aperture isn't always called for, but it is great to have the capability. Especially at night.
Then there is post processing. I'm still learning new ways to tweak my raw images, and edit them in Photoshop.