Level 60 barb but don't have the patience or 12491247124 fans supporting me to want to spend 150 hours grinding goblins in inferno act 1 just to MAYBE survive.
Hardcore is definitely a rush while softcore will put you to sleep after you've played HC for a long time. At the same time, there's a point where you realize what you can and cannot survive, and what it takes to survive what you can't survive. For inferno, knowing it could take me hundreds of hours of beating my head against a goblin wall - only to barely diminish the probability of being instakilled by an elite pack...kind of discouraging.