I love developing, again
I'm writing this today to remind myself: I actually do love developing. I do love the moment of sitting in my editor, with a challenge or idea, and writing an elegant solution to it.
Running an app on production – is a different beast. A nearly joy-less scenario. Its all remedial! Its scaling, bug-finding, performance tuning, conflict merges, security audits, etc. It's a lot of work. All the benefits come from that software's near-invisibility to the customer who uses it.