I think this is the same taste-maturation that many woodworkers experience. At first, you salivate over these crazy, overly specific, over engineered power tools. Over time, you start to really love things that are stupidly simple instead, like a card scraper, or a hand plane.
A few, simple, fresh ingredients prepared quickly and correctly can be much more amazing than a complicated 20 ingredient recipe that takes 2 hours to prepare.
