Huh?? Nobody enters mathematics because "We gotta get this Collatz conjecture solved already!", you enter it because you love the process of arriving at the solution.
It's like saying "If your goal is reaching the top of Everest, you should be ecstatic they built a train line that brings you right up to the peak!"
It's like saying "If your goal is reaching the top of Everest, you should be ecstatic they built a train line that brings you right up to the peak!"