I don't think this is the general frustration with programming that the grandfather post mentioned, it sounds more like you are working on a bad project. There

I don't think this is the general frustration with programming that the grandfather post mentioned, it sounds more like you are working on a bad project. There's always been some push-back against over-abstraction, from Rails' "FU Java" spirit to the whole Go ecosystem. It's just that these jobs are much harder to find than the typical Java EE hellscape.