> What’s the point in generating writing or generating art if it gives next to zero feelings of accomplishment?

Within the social milieu of industrialized society, mass-production is the point. It's harder to see that when the goods are essentials like clothing or food, where we obtain some utility and any artfulness is secondary to that utility. But, when we switch that around, and the artfulness of the good is the primary quality, it becomes very obvious that 10 trillion nearly-identical pictures of cake is just production for it's own sake.