There is as much pleasure in making something broken work properly as creating the thing (imo).
It’s a steady career as well, most programming is maintenance outside of the fail fast world of startups.
The startup is 7 yo, I joined almost 2 years ago.
The gap between old and new features is enormous .. and it will take years to reach some cohesion.
It was refreshing to find out that one of the approximately 7 languages that contribute to the final executable that was abandoned in ~2007 has been revived and is now (2016ish) being maintained by Eclipse
These kind of things make you realise that the Silicon Valley way of doing things is not the silver bullet.
People that have spent their careers in the silicon valley have a very distorted view of tech.