The problem here is valuing the process more then the result.
I have 2 decades of exp now as a eng...
But I also understand my job was never banging on a keyboard.
Solving problems/making solutions.
I learned the hard way the same, and now I can stop fighting dumbass issues or caring about debugging some state, lexical/scoping bug or concurrency issue.
I can go into a debugger when it really matters, but LLM pattern matching does 80/20 to the point I just don't have to G.A.F. about solving the same kind of problems. And im happy for that.
I love problem solving, but I also never did anything recreationally "for the fun of it". I don't build side projects for the lulz, I do it when I actually need to solve something.
So if I don't need to solve a problem, its a work smarter, not harder approach.