I agree, but the retrospective me is always more appreciative than the now me. I’ve probably done some of my best non-academic writing in axe posts, and at the time I was thankful that it would be gone in a few days, but from the future looking backward I occasionally regret not trying to do more with it.
Then again, everything always looks better in the rear-view, I’m sure if I actually had to live with the things I think are so great I would think they were bad anyway. Tears, in the rain…