Honestly this just sounds like you're just happy to be a junior at something again, where you don't know what you don't know and can't plan accordingly, and eac

Honestly this just sounds like you're just happy to be a junior at something again, where you don't know what you don't know and can't plan accordingly, and each time you solve a problem you get dopamine. 100s of hours of wood working is nothing, A wood worker that does this for a living with 1000s of hours doesn't run into these issues nearly as often, same for senior devs with programming.