I agree with this sentiment but wonder… as long as there are humans, is an ever increasing resource consumption and waste production inevitable? Isn’t this unquenchable desire for more intrinsic to humans? Yes, this means we will probably blow the planet it up, but is there any other way?
I attempted to deploy a simple app on Fly a couple of weeks ago, but porting it from heroku became a nightmare, servers crashing, cryptic error messages, etc. Maybe I'm in the minority but in any case my experience with Fly definitely left me questioning the hype around it.
A lot of people that are passionate about things are not content with the status quo. They want to “make a mark” so to speak.
Not to dissuade you from finding passion, but from someone who’s always been passionate about things, it can drive you a little crazy. Not to mention the joy that you speak of is temporary, there is always another hill to climb/ goal to reach