I thought the idea was to focus on what is achievable in the sprint. Breaking tasks into separate steps or points exposes the complexity of a task and a task that is listed as 1 point should be fairly quick to implement.

For me I'd feel more engaged by seeing that I've contributed to completing distinct points on the board at the end of the sprint.

I'm a team of one and only recently started coding a large project. Sometimes I can work entire days only having achieved intangible progress. I'd love to be able to quantify this work as progress toward distinct tasks. Maybe I need to implement an Agile-like system for myself.