Honestly when I accepted that clever code is bad code, my passion for coding died and now I just want to coast until I get fired and then go work at a phone repair shop

I think when I picked my major, I never understood what software engineering is, or even what engineering is. Honestly I shouldn't be complaining. So many people have it worse.

Coding would still be fun if it weren't a job, where we bend tech backwards to please the users (instead of teaching users to do the right thing)