Design is a nice-to-have

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design. I still very much appreciate the craft, if anything I think it's more important than ever. But when it comes to ingesting news and information about the craft of digital design and tools for creation, I just can't help but feel… flat. Not interested in the slightest. I am closing in on a realization that all my life I wanted to be able to make good software. Since I couldn't program my software, I shifted my effort—and my depth—to design, the one aspect of software I could impact and grow in. Now that I can make software myself, design feels far less important in terms of the creation process. I often make a “good enough” UX, and just chug along to make the thing useful, and usable. Back when programming was the hardest part of making software design was considered an afterthought. A nice-to-have. Then we hada brief period when distribution was the hardest part because software became sort of a commodity through SaaS, so…