Yep-- my DD was about the same age the first time she expressed a similar sentiment. She hates busywork, and she's got a nose like a truffle-pig for sniffing it out.

We've been battling to get her to do work "just because" for the intervening seven years now. 'Not pretty' is a polite euphemism for the war zone this has occasionally produced around here.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.