Editing is boring work because you have to go through hours of video and find the right fragments and stitch them together, then rewatch to see if the flow is right, etc.
Exactly, selecting what to put in the video is incredibly time consuming if you have a lot of footage. That's not evening mentioning editing. Every time I watch a section of video I would find things that can be improved. At a certain point, you need to stop polishing and just finish it.