In fact, not everyone is uniformly enthusiastic about honey. I know one commercial beekeeper who publicly wishes the little bugs didn't make extra honey. He makes his living producing queens to sell and moving his bees around to pollinate crops.
Honey is definitely responsible for most of the hard work in beekeeping.
A deep box full of sealed honeycomb weighs about 60 pounds. A strong colony can produce up to five of those in a season, depending on local conditions. Moving and harvesting hundreds of those boxes can be back-breaking work, even with a boom on your truck. Most of us have a little brighter opinion of honey than the friend I quoted above. Bees making extra honey are happy, happy bees.