100% feel this. Also even if you are doing something you enjoy, your brain goes into redirection mode when you hit the hard parts.

Is the language I’m using bad? Should I rewrite this other thing? Is it my colleague’s bad? Is this codebase rotten?

I see a lot of people label this as “I’m creative, I don’t do grunt work”, “I’m good at greenfield projects”, “I’m a builder” etc.