For sure, but that is American sports culture. Super Bowls and Final Fours and Stanley Cups (okay, Canadian too). Baseball was kind of the outlier until playoff expansion. It was still a joy to make the World Series and raise that NL pennant on Opening Day last year but it wouldn't feel the same if there's only an NL East banner going up next year, and even the concept of the NL pennant is not what it was pre League Championship rounds.
We should value it more, like in soccer, but collectively we don't. Great individual games or moments in a season (or early playoff round) are still fantastic of course, just different.
Junior hockey might be the only thing that resembles non-US soccer - teams still really treasure having the best regular season record, and then they can also win their league but lose the Memorial Cup and that's still a big deal.
But for sure, enjoy the ride. The attendance figures say that people are.