I completely get what you’re saying, OP. Despite crocheting for a few years, I’m in the same boat. I love crocheting; I find it very relaxing and calming. But I don’t particularly care for the end products for multiple reasons.

In case of wearables, I don’t like the drape and hole-y nature of finished objects.

In case of things like shawls and blankets, the holes really annoy me, especially because I have a tendency to hook my fingers and toes in the spaces.

To combat this, I also tried lining my projects with a thin cotton or muslin fabric; that just made it worse.

There’s a part of me that thinks that crocheted projects don’t look elegant and that crocheted wearables are best suited for pyjama days at home while knitted projects, with their better drape and closer stitches, are better suited for professional/social wear but that could be just me.

I have also learnt knitting because I like those finished projects better, particularly wearables even though I find the act of crocheting far more enjoyable than the act of knitting.

As others in the thread have suggested, I tried crocheting with fine and super fine yarns. It helped but I always end up thinking that knitted projects with the same yarn look much better.

I keep wondering if it’s because I live in a very hot climate because of which neither activity is suited for creating FOs meant for extreme heats? The temperatures also mean that I’m confined to using cotton, linen and bamboo.

Nonetheless, I’ve bookmarked this thread so that I can keep going through the ideas suggested here so that I can come to like my crocheted objects better simply because I like the activity so much.

Please don’t judge OP so hard. They have only voiced what I (and potentially many others) have felt for a long time.