During the pandemic, there was an insane number of people who wanted to get into coding and failed miserably. A lot of coders I know like coding, even if they hate their job or the projects and languages they work on. I myself hate my job, but I like what I do, though I'd never call myself successful because it's not the industry or the project I wanted to work on, and a lot of my professional "success" was more due to luck than anything else, I stopped playing "grind" 10 years ago.