I used to want this. To do what I like. But when I do that long enough, I get bored.
I am now growing into the business side of technological improvement and although sometimes I hate what I do, I learn something new very often and in the end I am making these small and big changes and get credits I used to get rarely. I feel proud even though some of the work is just project administration.
pure frustration and after a few hundred words it is about how cool the challenging software is. well it doesn't sove the problem, you just have some different problems on that scale. your problems require architecture