I feel you! I’ve got this same issue with vaping flower. Or even carts. And to an extent concentrates. There’s just something about the full body smoke of cannabis that completes the feelI hate vaping flower. I can't feel the hit and I even though I'm high I'm questioning if I am or not the whole time.
I've enjoyed cannabis on the regular for 22 years so I'm certain that I'm through my "dumb shit" phase. In my much younger days I walked into the plumbing aisle of a Home Depot with a list of copper pipe sections. I had it set in my mind I was going to build a gnarly smoking apparatus using this crap. I was looking for it all when this older gentleman working the plumbing department asked if I needed help? I replied that I was doing ok but thank you. This brilliant mf'er took one look in my cart and immediately says "son, if your going to smoke out of copper pipe, boil it first. The chemicals on it will give you alzheimer's." I was dumb but I still knew how easy it would have been for that guy to not say anything. Sincerely thanked him and put it all back. Made a gravity bong out of an empty water jug from those office building water coolers and a garbage barrel instead. Yeah, the junk we used to smoke out of.I guess people are alot more health conscious nowadays it's all flower wrapped in rice for me the past 30yrs but there's not much people didnt use to make pipes and bongs and such in my youth. If I was a kid today I'd already turned that nerf football into a gravity bong except they were pigskin