YES!!! Very well said and captures what I was trying to convey.

There's also certain features of an application that most of us engineers know how it works or how to do it, but it is just so painful to do it by hand. Or other features that you've always wanted because you saw another app do it and it was beautifully done and you can just "have" that feature in your app too.

The joy is in seeing the feature come alive, not so much in fighting the computer.