Making a Character You'll Enjoy Playing

I saw this question asked in a comment thread responding to Seraphim Seraphina's Pawn Stance is Objectively Correct post and it finally inspired me to hop on Prismatic Wasteland's Player Advice Blogwagon. I don't think of myself as a particularly good TTRPG player! I enjoy playing games but I'm not a grand tactician/logistician, I'm not particularly instrumental, and I'm not always great at holding a character goal at front-of-mind during role play. I think I'm good with riddles and puzzles, I enjoy playing around traps and physical problems, and I'm pretty good at drinking the goo. My most impressive stupid human trick is mid-session stenography (another skill somewhat obsoleted by LLM tools), but when I focus on notetaking I often take an audience role within the game. So I think my credibility in tackling this question is that I am not a noteworthy player and I have made many characters that I did not particularly enjoy playing. Let's look at a couple of layers of play and we can…