I've gone from management to individual contributor and back to management, mostly because I hated the culture where I was a manager and landed somewhere where

I've gone from management to individual contributor and back to management, mostly because I hated the culture where I was a manager and landed somewhere where its really good so its not a slog. My advice would be to think of the reasons why you wanted to move up from SWE into various roles leading to the Senior PM role you have now. Were you interested in those roles to be someone in the room making decisions, thinking you would do a better job than others? Maybe you were attracted to the strategy aspects? Maybe it was coaching people and see them grow? Maybe it was 100% pure cash grab? Blissfully building something and moving to the next thing is idealizing a software engineer's day to day. There is tech debt and the struggle of trying to convince people in your current role the importance, legacy code, legacy frameworks/methodologies, constantly having to learn the new shiny thing to stay relevant, dealing with many different engineer personalities, constantly being asked to deliver stuff in what is perceived as limited timeline, etc.