The artificial bandwidth and encryption limitations really reduce the use cases. My brother is a HAM, but it is so boring. People making contact, but no conten

The artificial bandwidth and encryption limitations really reduce the use cases. My brother is a HAM, but it is so boring. People making contact, but no content. Its basically metadata only. "Can you hear me now? Good". It's one thing if you have another hobby it enables, like off-roading or back-country stuff. But radio for the sake of radio I do not understand. TL;DR - I'm a huge nerd but I just can't get into amateur radio because it bores me terribly.