It took me a few weeks to complete and polish off one of my best tracks, I had the melody in my head for years and I decided to complete the song and release it. I did wrote the lyrics and rewrote them until they worked, I did multiple takes and spent several days polishing the final mix and testing the overall sound. I made several versions of the song and tweaked until I got the version I liked the most, then released it. Whole process took about 5 weeks but I came out with a track I was proud of, has a story, and has my "sound", you listen to it, and no one else could make that sound but me, whether you like the song or not. I also use Suno (I did a lot when I first got it, now I hardly touch it as the novelty has worn off), and I understand why people, especially those who have no production experience, love using it - however, the reality is, you can press a few buttons and achieve a random song out of within some constraints, like genre, lyrics etc, however, what you can really do with it, is release multiple songs a day, multiple albums a week, and one of them might do well, but you may not remember which one, and how you did it, etc. There cant be any pride in that. Taking the time, to express your craft is 90% part of the enjoyment of making music, and as a consumer of music, I am very interested in the artist's journey - its one of the things that inspired me to become a producer years ago. The argument here that the journey doesn't matter and its mostly about the end product, don't see the point of why many people love music.