Everything we do has to have a purpose. The more expensive it is the more that purpose has to be justified.
When I started flying 25 years ago my sole intention was to be able to say I had flown an aircraft on my own ie first solo then I was going to drop it all.
Some how that goal having been achieved lead to another goal the PPL.
In my early days I had this stupid idea that I could use an aeroplane like a car. Sailing above the traffic jams it would be yet another means of practical form of travel.
It took a lot more licences before that possibility became a reality and some pretty expensive, capable hardware to make it a reality.
Now I am paid to fly others expensive hardware I feel sorry for the poor PPL churning out vast sums of money to get his fix.
If I went back it would be to something I could fly out of a field on a sunny day which sipped fuel anything more practical means mega money and time and would feel like a hobby in spending money.
Pace