Getting things done is admirable, and no one expects you to know and love each individual person in your country.

But a ruler should care about the well-being of those within their country, and not just the political prosperity of the country as a whole. That is what I was getting at. A country can be expanded, or make its nobility rich, but if the people don't benefit, then they will still be resentful.

Rulers can grow fat on the backs of their subjects, the country becoming rich and prosperous, while the commoners that you are so contemptuous of starve and suffer.