Yes often I do, because I feel way more cognitive load spread across tasks, since I can take on more. However when I want to just get an idea out of my head fast, it does make me happy :-)
I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this "mental creep"?
This is a really, really good question!
While I wouldn't necessarily call what I'm building "wrappers", although others might disagree, I'm not making any revenue from them currently, however my market is more developer tools & enterprise.
I AM however, getting lots of value from having built a lot of tools, but by virtue of hands on experience with the tech (I'm a SWE), and reputation as someone who's actively integrating the tech, not sure if that counts haha but it's helping my career at the moment!
Absolutely! It feels to me almost like the toxic productivity, or longevity craze, where because you can do something or measure something, you do.. and over time your threshold and hyper focus on so many things & threads causes, anxiety, burn-out, etc.
I can't pin down exactly why, but I find myself having the same feelings about software devving my own project now that I did when I was into tracking my HSV and sleep etc, after a while those things can become a bit compulsive!