I think writing the happy path can be a very important part to programming, yes. I know some programmers who don't need to see immediate results when writing their software, but me personally? I can't really do without it. It helps keep my drive up being able to prototype things quickly, and helps shape the software I am writing, too. Low level languages feel unwieldy to me. Things that are relatively easy in languages like Python get more complex, but I suppose it's also the lack of experience with such languages. Where do I start, though, when doing anything feels so slow to me? :) Difficult problem for sure...