So is there a stage past that, where one sees more, and is okay again?

Yes.

A lot of things are like that. It's like, you start out with beginner's luck, & then when you figure things out a bit more whatever you're doing starts to suck; but then if you push through that, you end up better than where you started.

And it's important to do that, because the happiness that comes from innocence is so fragile. Start noticing things and it's gone. The happiness that comes from having worked through loss of innocence is a lot more sturdy.

But you have to keep doing it over & over because it happens for every different aspect of life.