No, and I still don’t. I think philosophers actively induce people to see mysterious, puzzles, and problems where none previously existed. Philosophy manufactures pseudoproblems to then “solve” using bad methods that aren’t adequate for solving the problem.

Much of analytic philosophy is a bit like giving someone instructions to build a castle out of Legos, but then not giving them the right pieces to do so, but insisting it’s possible to do so. Then everyone sits around trying to build a castle using instructions and pieces that can’t get the job done for centuries and centuries, convinced there’s a solution, but there isn’t.

Then when someone comes along and suggests that maybe the reason they can’t build the castle in the instruction book is because they don’t have the right pieces, they drive those people off, insisting they’re idiots and crackpots. After all, if those critics were right, then they’d have to admit they were wasting their time. And who wants to admit that? Plus, the mystery and the puzzle is so damn fun. Who wants to give that up?