> Pretending this problem doesn't exist

Young children tend to look with disgust upon many meals that adults find especially delicious. Is it a problem with the food, or is it a matter of experience and perspective?

I'm very tempted to give examples, but it's not worth it here. Suffice to say, this falls squarely in the category of "you don't know what you're missing".

In this long essay by Paul Graham - http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html - if you're willing to search for and begin reading at "The Blub Paradox", you'll get a sense of what I mean.

And then if you want to really be enlightened, at least to concepts that really what matter regarding programming languages, go watch videos from Rich Hickey (Clojure).