To the OP,
One reason to not rush into surgery: before my first surgery I heard that it took until about six weeks post-surgery before you were in less pain than pre-surgery. The pain post-surgery is from (more or less) healing muscles, etc. that were cut, and tissues that were very badly bruised, replacing the pre-surgery arthritis pain (plus other stuff, in my case the pseudo-psiatic lower back, leg pain). I found this six week rule true in the case of my first surgery, but I was in tremendous, debilitating pain (at times) before my first, right hip surgery.
But my left hip was a different story. It was following the same path as the other, but was not yet nearly as painful. I am now at four weeks after my second HR, on my left hip, but I suspect I will not be in less pain, as compared to pre-surgery, until a point well after six weeks. Perhaps two-three months. Further, my restrictions pre-surgery were not too great. Golf was one of them, though, and that was important to me (as my escape).
If I reversed my surgeries, I know that I would be regretting having had the surgery on my left hip done "so soon". I had the second one done, on some level, as a preventative measure so that I would not experience the high-end pain I did with the first. If I had never had that high end pain I would regret having had this surgery so soon.
This is major surgery (though of course not as serious as many other problems, heart, cancer, MS, a million other things). It should not be rushed into. For several weeks of your life you will be essentially handicapped. Three, four, six, more, it varies. How much vacation you have is a factor. The recommended two weeks before you can return to a sedentary job is ridiculously optimistic. I couldn't sit in a kitchen/office type chair for more than three weeks. Having small kids is a factor. Mine are 1, 4, 5. If they were all two years older recovery would be less stressful (though my wife is fantastic and does virtually everything).
There are plenty of valid reasons to not rush into surgery. Sometimes they get under-represented on this site.
Mike