I derive great personal satisfaction from creating new useful things that are of high quality. Most of the process of doing so is a pain in the butt though, an

I derive great personal satisfaction from creating new useful things that are of high quality. Most of the process of doing so is a pain in the butt though, and is neither fun nor easy. Sure, it can be fun to hack together some little script that no one but myself will ever use and which only contains the exact features I need. Making something of commercial quality with intuitive usability amazingly not ruined by a deep feature set is a completely different issue though. A lot of people who say programming is always fun seem to primarily release unusable open source stuff that is a nightmare to fix to get it working at all on any computer other than the developer's own machine, or they only work on trivial problems in a limited domain.