Many of us enjoy it because it's not like gathering in WoW. It's better done when you want to be gathering as opposed to take a random whack at a node you just happened to be passing by while doing a quest.

If you gather enough, you get to know what nodes are in the zone and roughly where they're at. If you want to go after a specific material, the gathering log is always there to help you find the general location (and time if it's timed node you've gathered from in the past).

If you're hoping it's going to get simplified to WoW levels, I'd say you're out of luck. The boredom and frustration you feel at the need to change classes isn't likely to go away.