[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

To add to my previous comment, I'm certainly not discouraging OP or anyone else to leave this hobby! Not when there are countless wonderful ways of enjoying it! Simply find another avenue to go down to rekindle the flame. The absolute best part of this hobby is that there truly are no rules! If you want to buy two 1986 Topps commons and then proclaim you've collected every baseball card known to exist, there's nobody stopping you! It's not incorrect if it's your personal truth. Do it however you want. That should be the joy of it.

If you're bored with trying to collect an entire set, then just realize that this notion of a "set" is just a rule implemented by someone else. Move on.

I completely gave up on unsigned cards over 30 years ago when there were so many new releases that it was simultaneously dizzying and sickening. I switched solely to autographs and haven't looked back. I was attempting to collect the autograph of every single man to put on a MLB uniform from 1876 onward. A daunting and impossible task, but I made wonderful headway. Then, as the 1990's gave way to the new millennium, I was struggling to enjoy the disgusting scribbles of the new guys to join the fold. I created a new rule that my version of this collection would end at the year 2000. That way, I didn't have to collect things that turned my stomach to look at, just because they were part of a "set", if you will.