Life becomes way lighter when you realize other people are also smart and what you’re “fixing” can very likely be:
- something so unimportant that no one felt it was worthy working on
- something that was supposed to work like that, and you simply don’t agree and want to make it your way
Or not. It can be the struggle of having higher than average standards.
Sadly, your list is incomplete without:
- something someone didn't bother to put any effort or thought into at all.
Programming is the closest humanity has ever gotten to godhood. We're creating entire structured universes out of unstructured bits. The system reflects the understanding of its creator.
We're all pretending to be gods, warring over the system's design.
But it didn't start with computers or programming, this tendency has been a long time developing.