heck, just stand on the swim platform and.... (okay, that's a guy thing)...
I mean, it doesn't... you know...
have to just be a guy thing.
And my benign, yet not polarizing opinion is that I actually may enjoy familiar dives without much to see more than the crazy ones that you tell stories about for years. I'm too lazy to meditate these days, so a nice dive in a local lake, with mediocre visibility, no current, and barely anything to see outside of beer bottles, golf balls, and mud often leaves me feeling better than those mind-blowingly incredible dives where you feel like you're an astronaut on some alien planet.
I love just sitting at 40 feet, a couple feet off a silty bottom, and (mindfully!) zoning out. Nowhere to go, nothing to do, just floating along and enjoying the sound of my bubbles.
I compare it to going to a Mass in Latin; you have some things you need to do (cross yourself, sit, kneel, etc vs. check your gas, depth, tweak buoyancy, etc), but they're largely automatic, and the words are just pleasant noise (like the bubbles and breathing). And yes, I understand the irony that this specific analogy may be a little more polarizing, but it lends itself to my benign opinion. It's not that I don't like "wow" dives and appreciate them, I just really like the boring ones with no obligations outside of being underwater and staying off the bottom.