> Nowadays, I feel like I have to jump so many hoops and spend so much mental bandwidth just to get the permission to code. > Any project I work on is connecte

> Nowadays, I feel like I have to jump so many hoops and spend so much mental bandwidth just to get the permission to code. > Any project I work on is connected to a million different tools, workflows and services, that all do things their own way, and everything lives in a totally different place, where it’s hard to monitor what’s going on. It sounds to me like it isn't coding you're falling out of love with. It actually sounds like you still love coding and you're bemoaning the fact that you never get to do it! Without knowing the specifics of your situation, it could be that you're at the wrong company or in the wrong role. There absolutely are companies and roles out there that let you spend the overwhelming majority of your time writing code. > I work mostly with Javascript — and that doesn’t help. I bet it doesn't. Not to rub it in, but this is why I don't work with JS/frontend. I think you might be onto something here, I bet the JS ecosystem and the way it all shakes us out is a large contributor to why you feel the way you do. I think changing careers right now might be rash decision (though, of course, you should remain open to anything). Why don't you start to devote some energies to moving into a different branch, such as backend/API development? I used to work on mobile apps and, while not as bad as the JS world, I found that I didn't enjoy how much of my time was spent perfecting pixels and the workings of the UI (some people do enjoy that, just not me) so I moved to working on larger distributed systems and APIs. There's no UI to content with and there's a lot of writing code. If I were you, I'd start devoting some energy to looking into that, assuming, of course, you have any interest in it.