I'm playing minecraft because it offered an easy and fun way to (sometimes together with others) express creativity. I wasn't good enough at drawing to be able to do that and didn't have any skills or software to create 3D models. Minecraft was easy to get into and with enough time and dedication, it gave me a way to create almost anything I wanted.
Sadly, it has become a terrible chore to build. There is only so much you can do to speed up the creation of something in minecraft. Sure, mods and plugins and experience help a lot but you're still gonna be placing blocks by hand if you want your creation to look somewhat decent. I spent 6 MONTHS worth of free time on my latest project... was ist worth it? Absolutely not. While I really really wanted to start, finish and share it, it was more about finally getting it done than to get the idea of it out of my head in a creative way.
Now I'm here, 1581 days after creating a PMC account and getting into creative building, slowly getting bored and asking myself how much other things I could've done in that time. While other people advanced their artistic skills and will now go and study in those fields, I'm a laughingstock who can't even call himself a voxel artist without getting called out on it, because I am not.
