Ungratifying used in a sentence

Ungratifying in a sentence as an adjective

At first it can feel ungratifying to program this way, even scary. You could be 85% done with your planned architecture and have almost no visible behavior of your final product, with that last 15% being the actual high level abstractions that really tie everything together and the project just seems to pop into completion.

If I'm going to use someone's results as basis for my own research, I really want to know that this is a final, "as good as they reasonably can make it" result, not an "oh we're not quite done with the hard, ungratifying work of actually crossing the ts and dotting the is but here it is" kind of result.