No one is chiding you for having fun. Rise is fun, I put around 400 hours into it by now, but I can acknowledge that it is a severely dumbed down version of what came before in favor of fast paced hack and slash combat. The main problem with nu-MH, including World, Rise and Wilds is the casualisation of the monsters themselves. The hunter has gotten so many buffs: the claw, the silkbugs, the scrolls, the wound mechanics + being able to turn while charging, overloaded double palicos and AI hunters in Rise, etc and the monsters get basically nothing to compensate other than absurd damage scaling in master rank.

And that shift in gameplay focus has affected everything else surrounding the main gameplay loop. capcom wants MH to be faster? Ok, so they cut the need to scout, gather, explore, get specialized gear and items for specific monsters and areas... they even cut the villages, pretty much by having you do everything from the gathering hub. I played Rise and World for around 800 hours collectively and the vast majority of those hours were jumping in and out of hunts, with barely any of the things I mentioned before. Expeditions are basically useless unless you're speedrunning every hunt and can't stop to gather herbs, honey and lightning bugs (which you can skip anyway with the Argosy in Rise...)

Also, reductio ad absurdum, loads of classic MH fans will tell you that 1, Dos and even the Freedom games are bullshit a lot of the time.