Human natures is to take what we have for granted and always being unhappy with it.

I personally assume nature made former to let us be more efficient (i.e. not spend all the time being astonished on how the sun is so shiny wow but for everything around) and latter to force us progress

So nothing unusual in this article. Another guy could read it and say “hey dude I’m trying to get kids for 30 years straight with my wife and would give everything for just to be at your place”