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We've got Agricola, and every game has been an exercise in frustration. There is simply not enough time to do...anything. Most of the time we're just trying to get enough food to keep your head above water, and then we don't have the people to do anything else. We don't tend to play with the cards anyway as it's all just too overwhelming, with too many options, and we end up only using one or two anyway. At the end it feels like it finishes far too soon, it really needs 3-4 extra rounds to get anywhere with your animals and crops.
What are we missing? Are there variations that spread the game out more? How can we be getting it so wrong when it is raved about? We're avid boardgamers, we enjoy plenty of others (Tzolkin, 7 wonders, Carcassonne with expansions...), but Agricola is the only one that rubs us up the wrong way. Wtf?