I enjoy all aspects of firewood production, including the stacking. If I wasn't a generic farmhand, I would like to do it full time as a biz.
Deal is, when I start to stack, Gf takes over and will actually remove and replace what I stack. so I just let her do it for the most part now.
She wimps and won't stack as high as I want to go, so the last few layers is all I get to do. I also sneak over when she ain't looking and knock pieces in better, etc. She has a theoretical idea of vertical plumb and level with an inward leaning bias, but I'm a carpenter and she aint, so I have to assert gravitational awareness authority now and then.
But *mostly* she does it. Meh, don't care, I get the fun of cutting and splitting.
She has fun cooking, again, cool with me, I can cook, but it is a lot simpler food. She likes to make fancy stuff so it looks like the covers of cookbooks.
Anyway, stacks mean you are *done*, your wood deposit is safe, now to accrue interest as it seasons. It's either money in the bank for you, or helps to eliminate having to have paper money, or *both*. It's just nice to look at 'em when done. You've brought home the bacon, provided for the future, etc. To me it is an important part of my "stock" portfolio, along with stock that moos, stock that clucks, etc.