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Why are injective modules more complicated than projective modules?

For beginners in homological algebra, it is a fact of life that injective modules seems to be more mysterious than projective modules. For example, for finitely generated modules over a noetherian ring, projective resolution can be taken as resolution by free modules of finite rank, but I don't see how one can easily write down injective resolutions.

I'm wondering if there is a deep reason behind this. What makes injective modules so complicated?