There is an absolute joy in simplicity, in other hobbies I am exactly like what you are describing. For this hobby however, for me, it's the journey... not the destination
I get to cast far more than I have time to shoot, so casting and all the tinkering and the do-dads and whats-a-thingers and the experimenting make my day.
To put it another way... I had this marlin 336 in 30-30. I decided to play around with this old 311467 single cavity mold. Had the day off, no one was home. Made up just 12 bullets to get an idea of velocity. Didn't worry about any variables, alloy, sizing, anything. Just a dose of Rx7(in my notes somewhere), bullets tumbled in BLL and I was off to the range to see what was gonna happen.
They shot .5 moa at 50 yards. The weirdest feeling when I saw that. I was crestfallen because this project was over and I didn't get to play around. The journey was far too brief.
A good and valid explanation and indeed if I think about it I find merit in the idea from the other end of the equation. I wanted my own shooting facility for years. I had a primitive range at my Up North property, but since we moved down here and created Thorn Hollow, I now have a set up that rivals many gun clubs.
Now that I have a stable, repeatable recipe for 1 to 2 MOA rifle ammo out as far as I can shoot, I wish I had 100K rounds of ammo ahead and didn't have to cast and reload at all. I find my skills are perishable, doggone it. I find shooting from a rest to be boring until the range becomes enough of a challenge, so I prefer to shoot a lot off hand. My rifle shooting is almost acceptable but my hand gun skills have eroded something fierce. Part of it is my eye sight. I went to the eye Dr. and at 67 I have 20/20 in my Master, (right ), eye and better than that in my left eye but with perhaps the beginning of a cataract. Heck, she told me that two years ago and no change. But why can't I see handgun sights very well any more? Oh, I'm fine at 7 to 12 yards or so, but get out about 25 yards or so and I start to have trouble with 6" targets. I think the term is presbyopia or presbyterianism or something.
I have really started to shoot .22's in a big way. We have held a .22 BPCR rules silhouette match here for, I dunno, 12 years maybe a little more. I'd practice up for that, but after the Match I'd start working on Cast Bullet for Military rifles in June. Well, then we let sporterized mil-surps in with 6X scopes. That led to heavier barreled .308's and so on.
So the science of bullet casting is fascinating and useful, but dang it, I need 40 lbs. of XCB's as soon as I can get 'em. I just realized what a dunce I am. Instead of filling the pot, casting a pile, throwing the sprues back in, topping off the pot and waiting for everything to come back up to temp, why don't I just fill two pots. Run one down quick refill it with the mould on the hot plate and switch to the second pot and keep going? See how helpful you guys are? You're the best!