Being that I build such systems for a living, from what I've observed you're pretty much right: the problems are boring in that they're not problems you the en

Being that I build such systems for a living, from what I've observed you're pretty much right: the problems are boring in that they're not problems you the engineer care about solving, no one sees/cares about your work, and it's kind of a rough way to build software thanks to the terrible deployment model, long feedback cycles, etc. We make it better by focusing a lot on building infrastucture for building applications and trying to push the envelope technologically, which keeps it interesting, and by giving people autonomy to at least be creative in solving the business problems. But in general all the rockstar developers have better things to be doing than building enterprise systems, which just means there's less competition for those of us who do it.