Jay,

My opinion of instrument flight agrees with what Jose, Emily, and Dylan
wrote:

Jose wrote
... Instrument flight can be the most beautiful, transcendental experience
in the air. Flitting in and out of the tops of a broken or overcast
layer, or even just getting =that= close to clouds as you brush by (which
you can't legally do in most VFR situations) is also fun.

Emily wrote
... In the clouds? I love it. I love having to pay attention every
second. I love talking to ATC. Call me strange, but I don't think it's
boring at all.

Dylan wrote
... if you're flying IFR, generally (or at least in my
experience) you don't tend to spend all that much time inside a cloud.
Quite a lot of it between them, above them, flying in and out of them.
Some of the most beautiful flights I've had have been IFR - bursting
from a wall of cloud into majestic canyons and mountains of cloud, all
patterned dappled by the overhead altocumulus. It was almost like being
on another planet.

I am confident that operating in benign IFR will greatly add to your
enjoyment of flying.

Jon