You do have some developers telling you that programming is 2% inspiration, 10% implementation, 91% debugging and 12.55555044555% bad dependencies.

It is more tedium than doing nice things.

If you following around developers for their postings — they will often have some VERY happy stories about spending several years getting a small feature to work 1% better. Pay attention to that ridiculously neurotic stuff. It is a more accurate depiction.