I think this is mostly true. However, if you were watching someone prepare the most exquisite steak, and it took lets say a full hour to trim the meat, get the

I think this is mostly true. However, if you were watching someone prepare the most exquisite steak, and it took lets say a full hour to trim the meat, get the pan ready and properly buttered, cook off the edges of the steak, etc, and you were sitting there watching the chef go through this metiMaybe we just care about seeing the complexity in an operation for it to have value.culous process, then perhaps you wouldn't be upset that it took so long--and most likely would enjoy the steak more, having seen the entire complxex and careful process to cook the thing. Similarly, if an oil change was a complex operation and you watched the mechanic half-dismantle your car to change whatever needed changing. Or if you watched a programmer bounce around the screen in vim for 20 hours; coding, testing, tweaking, and debugging.