Well, for me it's simple. My reason for not woeing anymore after I get my laptop back is that the amount of fun I'm having isn't enough to justify the amount of time spent gathering resources, which is way disproportional to the actual amount of time spent burning these resources.
(or to translate into human language, I don't feel like spending all the time I'll have left for playing by hunting whites/starsands/whatever else just to waste them by hundreds per hour when it's not even fun for me.)