Love how it looks, *hate* the process

I have no clue if it's because the hook I'm using is smaller than I'm used to, or if it's because this cotton yarn is the most finicky, splitty, annoying crap on the planet (that I have ANOTHER colour of) but this is slowly driving me mad. The yarn is Hobbii Sultan, and I'm using a 3.5, there's so many scales 😭