[prohobo]

It's often the work you're currently doing that colors everything else in your life, from personal experience. I don't think it's fair to suggest, but I would quit and take a break then get started on something new.

My problem with outright suggesting that for you is that it sounds like this company has been treating you well. It's just the nature of startups to become what feels like busy work after launch (or even before).

That said, I've never experienced management shifting gears just to satisfy engineers. I think in some circumstances it might make sense to, for example, promote the main engineers and hire contractors to do the busy work. But it's just not realistic. Business processes need to evolve and roadmaps need to be maintained, especially if there's a board of investors involved.

I wish we could do projects where we build the product, launch it, then just sit back and make money. It'd be heaven to my ears. Unfortunately, we instead decide to tweak things endlessly and add features which often don't need to be there. But often they simply do need to be there if the business wants to scale.

In any case, I wouldn't worry about it: your lack of motivation is most likely temporally locked and heavily dependent on your current work.