My experience of AA? It felt like I had a sociopathic, right-wing authoritarian in me squeezing the soul out of me, kung-fu chopping away any sort of outlook I had about the world. It was not, ultimately, very pleasurable. And no matter how much that 'pain' was said to develop me, I still felt like I was being beaten up and that is immoral in my book, no matter how immoral I was.
That is why I left. Some love it though, and I accept that.