The first pancake is always wrong. Everybody knows this and nobody throws away the pan over it.
Struggle is information about the gap between what you can already do and what you're attempting. Close the gap and there's nothing left to learn, because the skill you have doesn't teach you anything.
Gratitude during it is a lot to ask. Gratitude afterwards is realistic and still worth something. Going back through a hard week and naming the one thing it taught you turns a cost into a purchase.