[lemondrops]

I never saw it that way before -- but as someone who found programming in their early teenage years too, this sounds very familiar. I still feel a sense of excitement when I learn something new, but it wears off very quickly because most new technologies are just another way of doing the things you did before. E.g. I got to learn Type Script recently, but after a couple of days of getting used to the syntax it felt just like all the other frontend frameworks out there... It's true that most regular coding dayjobs mainly consist of gluing together libraries and solving (often) self inflicted problems, and it's so frustrating!