The point of reading a story like this is to enjoy the act of reading it, not to claim a reward for reaching the conclusion. It's genuinely saddening how angry people in this thread are getting over the idea of reading for reading's sake.
You must be the type who enjoys reading the short story before each recipe on the internet too and doesn't skip straight to the actual part where they tell you how to cook the dish they've been writing about for 10 chapters already.
