I wholly agree with this. I loved the mind bending nature of complex CS problems, including Algos & Automata. Yet coding is a snore fest for more than a few day

I wholly agree with this. I loved the mind bending nature of complex CS problems, including Algos & Automata. Yet coding is a snore fest for more than a few days. I felt like I went from a forward looking, enlightening major - to become where you end up in the details worrying about semantics. CS is mind expanding; coding is specialist mind numbing boredom.