I got around this feeling of disillusionment by changing track to vulnerability research and exploit development. Now I spend my days figuring out how things work and how to break them to do things they were never designed to do.

It's so much more satisfying that the tedious, unfulfilling, run-of-the-mill software development crap that I was doing prior to this. The nice thing about this switch is that all my previous experience in the field comes in very useful, unlike if I changed careers to something entirely different.