If you want to enjoy the view, try hang gliding.
Am only (slightly) joking. I am not sure what stage you are at in your training, but I can only speak from my experience which includes about 300hrs SEP VFR.
On a typical x country flight of an hour, how much time do I spend looking out at the view? Well if you add up all the snippets maybe couple of minutes? Not much more I would think. Most of the rest of the time is spent looking out but that is looking at my aiming point, keeping wings level, scanning for other a/craft, looking for my next waypoint. Also quick look inside at the instruments to assess performance, monitor the radio, update PLOG, FREDA checks, prepare for next waypoint, ie what is my next heading/level? Then also keeping an eye on the weather/cloud base. And some 'what ifs', ie if I have an engine failure, where am I'm going to put down?
Of course the view from a light a/craft is unique and we all enjoy that. But there I a lot more to it than that.