[perching_aix]

> The only major difference I see is that beyond a certain number of transformations, people are willing to treat it as some sort of miracle

Like with every invention ever? Cause that's the literal goal and idea?

You take things and then combine them until the ensemble performs a desired abstract function the individual parts alone could not. The end result then is a new thing of its own, arguably indeed a miracle (not in a religious sense of the word).

> and too tired to figure out why it came up with the answer it came up with

There are people whose entire career is this. They work at these companies.

> Factor in that psychology and it looks a lot less like we have invented something useful, and a lot more like we as a species are choosing to quit life en masse.

You're saying this as if people haven't been historically the masters of optimizing out the enjoyment from things. It's what we do. Provide an ultimate solution, and of course you'll extinguish a whole lot of motivation across the board.