Product management isn't an upgrade from software engineering. You thought it was until you experienced it yourself. That was your downgrade. I went through

Product management isn't an upgrade from software engineering. You thought it was until you experienced it yourself. That was your downgrade. I went through that experience and realized PM is a necessary yet insufficient role for someone who has built, and enjoys building software. However, not all software is valued the same. Greenfield work is so much fun, creating something from first principles and intuition, blazing trails and risking failure to acquire insights. Why not dedicate yourself to innovative greenfield project work and keep the PM gig until your project can become a viable product?