I hate editing. I like the process of coming up with ideas, and I love the feeling of these ideas coming to life. I really take pride and satisfaction whenever I finish a video and it pleases me (even if it pleases noone else). I know I may be reinventing the wheel, but I like the wheel. I don't like the process though - as my favourite musician would say:
Robert Fripp wrote:At the beginning, you have a wheel.
At the end of the process, you have a wheel.
And in between is pain.
That basically sums up my feelings for editing, and really most other technico-creative processes. I hate grappling with the mechanics of writing (even though that's what I do for a living). I hate grappling with the proportions in drawing. And probably more than those two things, I hate grappling with timelines, clips, filters, compression, and blahblahblahblah in editing. I just draw no satisfaction from cracking these kinds of annoying mechanical sideshows. I don't reach nerd nirvana when I solve a technical problem in editing. Not that I never reach it at all, but if I want to enjoy technological challenges, I play a flight simulator or something. Any technical or procedural challenge editing throws at me pales by comparison to that for me, in terms of personal enjoyment. Twiddling with clips is a bore, snore and chore and it's really not my thing.
Sadly (wait... sadly?), ideas and pipe dreams on one side, and satisfying results on the other, always make me come back whenever I work up enough motivation to get over my loathing of editing. And last but not least, the community and friends I have around AMVing keeps me firmly anchored in the hobby. And I should say, over time, I've started hating the technical aspects of it a bit less. I've become more comfortable and somewhat more creative with them.