[chiefalchemist]

> It's just refactoring the codebase a bit, reorganizing it, making it cleaner and more structured, and it's supposed to be easy.

Why is that supposed to be easy? When things start to sprawl, and more and more tech debt gets left behind (i.e., in the codebase) then complexity increases, as do the risk of balloon grabs (i.e., grab in one place and something pops out somewhere else).

Of course you're tired and demoralized, every change has to be second or third guessed.