You need to compare it to someone inventing something like a windmill. In ancient times, someone was crushing grain with a rock. Pretty tedious work for little

You need to compare it to someone inventing something like a windmill. In ancient times, someone was crushing grain with a rock. Pretty tedious work for little reward. Then someone figured out a way to use a bigger rock by rolling it. Then they hooked a mule up to it. Then they hooked up bunch of vanes so the entire process was automated. No on had to feed the mule or move the rock. The process isn't really a product of laziness, its a product of how you can be more productive with your resources. The time you put into building better tools is an investment into your productivity. You could sit there and manually edit spreadsheets for eight hours or you could spend a couple hours writing a tool to crank through them in ten seconds and you can move on to another task. As long as it takes less time to build the tool than the cumulative time of completing that task and any future similar tasks the tool could be used for, you have progressed just the same as early man did making tools.