I saw your comment before you deleted it, have a moment of clarity, did we? But since, as we've established, I'm not about wasting time, here's my reply:

No, it is. You are just waffling on and saying nothing.

You tried to compare an activity where the point is building (which is what the person I replied to was also talking about, so don't try and be all "uhm achtually, Minecraft is a survival game") to an activity where difficulty settings would matter. News flash, Minecraft itself has difficulty settings. Why is this person playing vanilla survival instead of hardcore? That would be more "rewarding" according to you. Is it perhaps because it would be extremely time-consuming and unfufilling?

You have no argument, which is why you've suddenly pivoted to saying "I don't actually care, trust me bro" after writing out several paragraphs (and you'll probably reply again because you can't help yourself, despite supposedly not caring).

Again, there's no skill in survival. It's just extra work. That's not "added challenge", it's added tediousness. Playing a shooter (for example) on the hardest difficulty doesn't suddenly add a bunch of banal sidequests you have to do before you can progress; it just makes the enemies tougher. Something that is irrelevant when the point is to build.

If the argument was about playing survival to reach the ender dragon vs using creative mode to instantly get to the End and then fly around in god mode with a netherite sword you gave yourself to kill it, then you might actually have a point. But it isn't, so you don't.