I feel like a bad programmer because I care less about the difficulty of the problems I solve and more about how I solve a problem makes the users feel.

Stuff like this is why I never do Advent of Code and stuff, because it just sparks nothing in me.

I bailed out of a LeetCode interview before because I was just like "I hate this."

I remember the question being about optimal buying and selling of stocks and my brain just entirely shut down and I couldn't get myself to give a fuck.

Exacerbated by the fact that I like backend programming. I like building APIs that are pleasant to use. I like automating tasks that people find painful to do. I just like finding those pieces that make peoples lives just a little better.

The things that are my skillset. My drive in programming. Are almost never what are sampled in interviews, and are often what companies are actually looking for.