Quit whining and get back to your knitting.
I admit this is petty and I feel like such a grouchy old lady but the appropriation of fast fashion and knitting has gotten ridiculous.
Fiber arts are more than hobbies, they are skilled crafts. It doesnt take talent to learn knitting or crochet, it takes learning. You have to build your skill set and understand how it works and WHY. As with any skill, there are steps that are boring and you dont want to do. Gauge swatching, weaving in ends, blocking, PURLING (the horror), they can all be avoided if you dont want to do them but you do need to know how to do them and be ok with doing them with the same care and attention you give to making your miles and miles of boring petiteknit stockinette stitches.
Also, there will be lots of unintended lessons learned and thats ok too. Ive made dozens of projects that didnt turn out. Ive spent months of hours and hundreds of dollars on a project just to have it ruined in the block in 10 minutes. Frogging isnt a failure, its a lesson. It sucks but its valuable.
Fiber arts are slow and methodic and do not fit well within the internet sphere, where everyone is trying to get as much as they can as fast as possible. They are a lesson of what you can accomplish in small increments, and also impermanence. Slow down, pay attention, and quit whining. That shortcut isnt a shortcut, its going to make your FO look like shit and make you feel like you wasted your time and you suck. You dont, you just need to shift your perspective and learn to do it right.