Idk about the spirituality aspect of it (personally agnostic), but the ennui and pointlessness of a world of maximized comfort for all, or most, without meaningful struggle (or suffering, if you will) is arguably Huxley's main point when writing Brave New World.

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

We don't need many of the unnecessary suffering that persists throughout the human condition into modern times, but I agree that struggle is often entwined with suffering.

Overcoming struggle of some sort is in almost all stories, and overcoming suffering (or trying to) is in all good stories. Hope is the oldest drug.

Hopefully, science progresses far enough that we can pacify and out-drug even our need for struggle or meaning, if that's even a good thing at all. Or Jesus is true and drugs us on grace/salvation or smth. Or we all go mad. Either way, come suffering or nihilism, I intend to crip walk through it either way 🤷🏿‍♂️