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I read "Code was never the hard part" as "Writing the Code down is easier than the stuff you do before it (like Architecture, Design Patterns, Requirements) and after it (Testing, Troubleshooting, Refactoring, etc)".
Writing code was never more than 20% of what I do as a programmer. All those other things are where I have always spent me time, and those are the hard part.
And to me the least fun. Programming is the fun part, everything else is stuff I have to deal with to do the fun part.
All of it has parts I hate there is a lot of boring code I've had to work on. And sometimes the fun code is things I finish and say nobody should every do that...
Then look at it again in a year and go, "Who wrote this?!" Do a git blame then go, "Oh, why did I do this?"