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1. Took a few weeks of holiday and didn’t TOUCH a computer during that time, did a hard reset.
2. Longer term, I looked into stuff I had never programmed (during my spare time) to rekindle my love for it. Stuff that was (objectively) useless for my career but that I did anyway for the sheer love of it. In my case it was messing around with 3d games libraries and building a basic gaming server.
Hope this helps.
If you have a long enough career is Software Dev, you will almost certainly at some point end of using a software product you personally don't like. Learning to compromise / pick your battles is a career skill like any other.
Apologies if this sounds overly critical, but as a hiring manager, I would consider it a bullet dodged. Drawing hard lines in the sand over small things like this would be a red flag for me.
"War in the blood" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006nzt
Thanks,
Incerto