Yes, it's a glorious 30 seconds. After that... not so much.
What annoys me is how fast the evidence of that work vanishes. No matter how perfect I get either thing, I have to do it again that same day.

It's the same reason that I dislike puzzles. I like cleaning my own spaces, such as the chicken coop. It's just frustrating when small cyclones undo everything in a half hour with no recognition that you just spent three precious hours out of your life making everything tidy and in order. I've learnt to simply spend just enough time on cleaning to keep it under control and to let perfection go; it's not attainable.
I suppose cooking would be more fun if I cared more about it. To me, food's just what keeps you alive long enough to do other stuff. Plus... picky eaters suck all the remaining fun out of it.

Ungrateful brats.
I can roll with steady downward slopes in the visible return on things that I do. That's expected. It's just annoying when it looks more like a graph of nuclear half-life with no return on effort.