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The hardest lesson I’ve learned in turning a programming hobby into a programming career is the following:

The vast majority of truly impactful code is really boring at a technical level.

So, yes, that’s sometimes why people write frameworks: to get some excitement in their code.

I like to say something along the lines is “80% of all development should be really boring otherwise you didn’t do enough planning or you’re working on < 1 year old start up”. To me the real excitement isn’t from the code working it’s from a whole team making something that works because that is way more challenging.

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