You're right, that's the way to look at it. If you can be transactional, it's ok and maybe you can get away with a 10hr week. But it's still tiring to see code

You're right, that's the way to look at it. If you can be transactional, it's ok and maybe you can get away with a 10hr week. But it's still tiring to see code being merged and thinking "that's going to make X, Y and Z harder for me to do". Or being asked/told to make bad changes. Or being the one who has to do the emergency fix for the non-null assertions causing runtime exceptions in prod (which you had flagged in review and been told "the compiler is wrong, we know they can't be null").