And yet you claim not to understand why people hate doing more work ?This is really the key. Lifestyle articles romanticize anything they want for the sake of clicks, and if you take them at face value, you can end up feeling guilty for not getting deep satisfaction from shopping, cleaning, and every other kind of drudgery imaginable. Going to the grocery store is supposed to be an opportunity for social connection. Picking up your dry cleaning nurtures your ties to the community. And if you prefer to spend your time on a stimulating and challenging task that you actually chose and are good at, you are a joyless drone.
The MO of this kind of writing is to take really nice but unusual experiences -- like when you exchange a few words and a smile with the checkout clerk and it brightens your whole day -- and suggest that these are bread and butter experiences for other people. That other, better people don't often find the grocery store boring or stressful.
It ratchets up the insecurity by presenting idealized versions of every scenario. You aren't pushing a cart through a crowd at the middlebrow grocery store picking up stuff you wish you didn't have to buy and comparing prices because you haven't saved enough this year. You aren't fighting traffic in the parking lot trying to find a space, any space, because you had to leave work at the same time as hundreds of thousands of other people and _had_ to shop because you're out of twenty essential items. You're taking a nice healthy stroll or bike ride to get ingredients for dinner tonight. Everything fits nicely on your bike because you only got what you need right now and you don't have a family that has its own needs and its own timelines.
Of course it only contributes to the malaise and stress because it makes you feel like you should really be having peak experiences all the time because other people are and if you aren't there's something wrong with you. It hits you from both ends by creating anxiety that you aren't keeping up and hope that your life contains a vast untapped reservoir of potential happiness.
Honest social commentary never uses this sleazy self-help formula. That's my tl;dr if anybody wants one.
Finally, think about how sinister it is to equate the desire to occasionally be free from something with a spiritual inability to enjoy it. This is the kind of logic that oligarchs use to romanticize the lives of the people they exploit. You don't want to do this work? It's drudgery to you? It must be because there's something spiritually wrong with you. You don't appreciate how this work binds you into a greater spiritual whole with the rest of society.