I think that's marvelous in its own way. One of the defining experiences for me as a software engineer was hearing my boss tell a story about another engineer — there was a problem that had been hanging over the team for over a year, every engineer on the team had tried to solve it, and everybody thought it was going to be a huge effort, until one day this engineer came up with a solution. His solution was so simple that he was able to implement it by himself in a couple of months, and it was so elegant that a year later, nobody could remember why they thought the problem was hard in the first place. Having seen the solution, they were so changed that the person they had been before they saw it was unimaginable to them.

Ever since I heard that story, that's what I have aspired to. Is it disenchantment? I don't think so. The mystery is merely moved, from "how could this be possible?" to "how can a thing go from impossible to boring?" and "what currently impossible things will become boring in the next 50, 100, 500 years?"