I always get the impression that Belgium never really intended to split off from The Netherlands. Unfortunately, the Dutch king of the time was completely out

I always get the impression that Belgium never really intended to split off from The Netherlands. Unfortunately, the Dutch king of the time was completely out of touch with what his new subjects wanted, even while heavily investing in his new country. Efforts to finally get the stubborn guy to at least give some token gestures to a small number of mostly irrelevant demands got so completely out of hand, that people more or less accidentally started a revolution. The feelings of the newborn Belgium governement seemed more or less : Oh shit, we accidentally liberated this country. How did we become the governemnt in the first place? What are we gonna do? Then asking some French noble to be the king and getting a 'no' from him wasn't helping much either.