Easy is not lessening pain or misery, nor is it necessarily to help lessen unwanted chores, work or mind-numbing repetition. To lessen these things is not always easy. To have more time for leisure is not necessarily creating more time for creativity or imagination because these things are not easy. So, what is it to make something “easy”?
The first possible explanation is that it does not take much effort or understanding in order to accomplish an easy thing. A second possible explanation is that one already has the knowledge and understanding to accomplish a task. However, that does not mean that it has always been easy to that person.
In the same way technology is not necessarily progress. It does not make life creative or allow uncreative people to be creative or imaginative. Technology, however, does make life easy. This has an interesting effect.
First, it would seem to have creative and progressive effect on a few creative and imaginative folks while lessening that effect on most others. Also, it seems to create the illusion of creativity and imagination for those that are actually not creative or imaginative.
In the worst-case scenario, wisdom becomes information and creativity becomes a cut-n-paste project. In the best case scenario, technology makes it easy to further the difficult task of actually being creative and imaginative.
The Armchair Philosopher 
I wonder if making something “easy” is to allow something to just be simply enjoyed. It’s in our challenges and overcoming them that we grow, and yet if everything was constantly a challenge, life would be impossible. Easy things, like watching a sunset, and challenging things, like dealing with an illness, live side by side.
While we may experience joy with something easy or overcoming a challenge, neither provide ultimate fulfillment in life. Maybe neither by themselves are the ultimate goal.
I wonder if making something “easy” is to allow something to just be simply enjoyed. It’s in our challenges and overcoming them that we grow, and yet if everything was constantly a challenge, life would be impossible. Easy things, like watching a sunset, and challenging things, like dealing with an illness, live side by side.
While we may experience joy with something easy or by overcoming a challenge, neither provide ultimate fulfillment in life. Maybe neither by themselves are the ultimate goal.
I would agree that “simply enjoying” something is a worthwhile endeavor, but I would add that what makes it worthwhile is that we pay attention to the beauty in the sunset, that we understand it on a level that might go beyond simple enjoyment. Aristotle’s word for this is eudamonia. Thank you for your comment!