Making stuff by hand is not easy. Coming up with ideas, learning the skills to make those ideas a reality, the limits of what tools you have or can access at the time, even the limits of time itself. As artists running a small business there is a lot of non-art stuff to do also. So much work...
Maybe if we got this automated tool or used that new technology, we could save a lot of time and it would be a lot easier to focus on the parts we love to do. Perhaps we could even focus on selling more stuff and expanding our market so we could make more money. Who doesn't want to make more money?
What if it is those difficulties and restrictions that force us to think and be creative, to put that extra effort into what we do because we don't get all the time, and when you have to work at something, you want it to matter, not necessarily to be perfect, but to be the best you can do.
Even the parts that are not really the "fun stuff" are still important to the process. Learning about anything helps the brain expand, which allows new ideas and new ways of thinking. Things that are not fun to do, when you finish them, there is still a feeling of accomplishement in that too.
In the end, we enjoy what we do and how we do it. The process is part a big part of it. When we share our art and someone connects with it, that makes magical. It is not the easy way, but it is what works for us, keeping us realtively sane and feeling human.