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There are very few vegetables where growing them makes yourself much sense (economically). There are a few where you can 'fire and forget' basically, but even then it's a up-to few hours preparing the soil. In my climate zone, mint would be one - it's basically a weed, so it will grow and spread by itself.
Also - you can't get Basil in store where you are? In the UK and Germany it's available either as fresh leaves, or as small plants costing about probably $1-2 each.
To each his own though. I’d never push my hobbies on someone else or challenge anyone who started to find one of theirs unfulfilling.
Because it's fun. It's cool & normal for people to shift hobbies. Sounds like you're ready to move on to a new one!
Sportsball people love to make fun of the "nerds" dressing up in costume like their favorite character and get together once every so often at a con of some sort, yet totally ignore the fact that their fellow sportsball fans dress up in body paint with no shirts or other costume of cheese hats or viking hats or whatever on a weekly basis (maybe biweekly if they only do home games).
The whole concept of mine is better than yours is exactly what people love to read on a monday morning, so I and others thank you for your valueless contribution to start our day.
It also tends to involve a huge amount of plastic, weirdly, and pests are a big issue.
I remember seeing my first pallet wrapper. It’s very cool but there’s a lot of plastic there. (Check out this vid starting at 43s: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TzqSEKCj0Po)
Out of curiosity, how did a large garden involve lots of plastic?
To start, you put black plastic on the ground to block light and kill off grass, weeds, etc.. Then there's plastic plant "fabric" on the plants at night to keep them warm, then plastic netting over plants to stop birds from eating the berries, and of course the polytunnel (called a hoop houses in some places) itself is made of thick plastic, and it will break down over time due to UV. All of this plastic degrades and turns in to microplastics in the environment.
It's tiny by comparison but I always found it annoying that a strimmer is designed to just throw entire spools of plastic in to your garden one tiny piece at a time.
The image here gives a decent visual https://vertical-farming.net/blog/2018/04/02/reimagining-alm...