I go to work to exchange labor for money. Why would I like work more that gives me less money in exchange for my labor most other things being equal. In my experience (8 jobs over 25 years) one development job looks about like any other. I wrote code to do “stuff” or later on in my career I showed others how to write code to do “stuff”
I have the inability to focus and tolerate work that isn’t interesting and rewarding beyond the money, I haven’t figured out yet how to exchange money for reduced work-induced misery, and I’m not as fortunate as you in seeing all jobs as the same. In fact, I could easily accept a lower salary for a research ship conference paper job than a SWE ship software job, not that the former jobs are very easy to get these days at any salary.