Sometimes I miss my former bike ignorance

I think there's thre stages to bike ownership, the first as described is happy ignorance, followed by learning from you mistakes, it the final phase where you discover n+1 that I call bike nirvana... I'm still at stage 2

I was thinking along the same lines, I feel bogged down with niggling problems (yes UTFS is bloody helpful but adds a headache-inducing element, and isn't so practical when your hands are covered in grease). 98% of the time I love the maintenance, but during that other 2% I just wish I could ride off without thinking "oh yeah I need to sort that out.. " whereas before I'd think "WHEEE I'M ON A BIKE".