Creating GIFs (Rant)

Have you ever tried creating GIFs? It's the most frustrating thing you'll ever do.

You carefully make the original Video.
Then you convert it to GIF. But it's enormous for uploading to the internet.
Then you have to Resize it and remove few frames.

Example one:

Example two:

If everything goes well, you get these results. If Not, you get something like this:

You're like: is it going to start? Do I have to click something? Then you realize all your 2 hours of work was replaced by still images. And you are like...

And you have to do it all over again. I have been at it for 2 days now and I think some of my hair turned white during that time. But I did manage to finally get it going. (It's Something!)

Have you ever had such an experience? Tell me what you think about the GIFs, suggestions are welcome!