In my opinion we all need therapy. The core purpose of any good film, song or book is therapy. You just do it secretly because the moment people think they're getting preached at or mentally healed, they're quick to point out that they're just fine, and they have a good head on their shoulders. It's easy to spend a lot of time on material or exoteric accomplishments and confuse that with being successful. People want to confuse their exoteric accomplishments with success because the inner world is much harder to traverse and the rewards, as you have pointed out, are not readily apparent.

I had a lucid my first day on this forum, but I didn't have another one for a year or so afterwards. That whole time I felt just like you, frustrated, thinking "Man, it'd be fine if it was easy but it's not worth all this WORK." Then it hit me that the reason it felt like such work was because I was attached to becoming lucid and so every morning I woke up without one, I felt like I had lost. That's when I decided I can't control my sleeping self to the extent I needed, I could only control my waking self. I built good habits that would increase my chance of being lucid without doing all that much extra work. Even now, every morning it's a battle to get myself to write my dreams down (especially when they're mundane) but I do it because I know that demon gets stronger every time I let it win, but it gets weaker every time I don't let it win. Knowing this simple fact has enabled me to take on all the other commitments I have taken on. Once you stop listening to that evil voice in your head telling you everything is hard work, nothing feels like work anymore.

Also, I have gained a lot of intuitive knowledge on the functions of my psyche by being lucid in a dream. I can't speak volumes of the benefits of this knowledge but specifically by trying to engage in some dream control, I learned a lot about how my mind works.