I hear ya.
While there is nothing like the feeling of arrowing a 150 class buck, I definitely enjoy the habitat journey that leads up to it nearly as much.
Where this property is at in terms of huntability and mature buck holding potential, I'm probably a few years away. I can't wait to get there, but some stuff happens slowly in this habitat game. I've only been deer hunting for about 10 years and the first 5 of those years I thought food plots were all that was needed to kill nice bucks. Wish I would have been establishing better cover 10 years ago.