Yes it's normal.. no it is not "ok" in my opinion. I am in the same situation except I find planning at a higher level more boring. Yes it requires the archite

Yes it's normal.. no it is not "ok" in my opinion. I am in the same situation except I find planning at a higher level more boring. Yes it requires the architect to know all the different parts and how to move them together efficiently to deliver projects but.. it's not creative. There's no immediate feedback. There's little sense of ownership. It doesn't give me any job satisfaction. Sometimes it is more about how things appear than how it actually works. It's not why I got into this career. For me, I feel it will also make moving jobs more difficult. I see some of my colleagues and they have little to no programming skills anymore - and they don't want that skillset either.