Not sure about tedious but code reviews do come to mind. IMHO code reviews are super important but the context switch between coding and reviewing code gets to you at some point.
Yeah I can definitely resonate with that, but a-lot of the early insight and best practices I gained early on in my career were established doing code reviews. So I generally see them as a positive.
yeah for me too, I learnt so much from code reviews and how to do a good code review, it is a super important workflow