Of course if you are working on a boring problem it is a mistake to try to make it more interesting by incorporating interesting tools. This is a common problem

Of course if you are working on a boring problem it is a mistake to try to make it more interesting by incorporating interesting tools. This is a common problem in web development for a lot of people. On the other hand if the problem you want to solve is interesting and hard then probably you will not go far with the boring standard solutions. (see: Oculus Rift). Summary: if you don't want to be bored, choose interesting problems, not just interesting tools.