This happened to me too. The more I learn about alternative programming methods, the more my brain constructs elegant solutions that completely go around the pr

This happened to me too. The more I learn about alternative programming methods, the more my brain constructs elegant solutions that completely go around the problem at hand, or even the conditions which led to the context of the problem. I've reached the point where I mainly do data-driven and declarative programming with low-code or no-code in spreadsheets or GUIs. I feel almost physical pain now when I have to write traditional imperative or object-oriented code, because 95% of it feels like a waste of time to me. As in, most of the effort expended by a programmer is in initial setup, remembering mutable state, poorly-architected class hierarchies/interfaces, and rapidly breaking dependencies that only last a few months at most now. Less than 5% of what I do is the "real work" of solving the actual problem. Not really sure where to go with this, but I found that getting away from programming for 6 months or so this last year has really helped my psyche.