This is 100% normal for individual programmers. Motivation, effort, energy, willpower, whatever you want to call it: it's finite.
The draw of an organization is that it gets more done than individual programmers. The catch is that in gluing things together, there are cracks, and things fall through them. It's the responsibility of the COO, HR, product managers, etc. -- anyone getting their salary from the organizational stuff and not the technical stuff -- to make sure there are processes in place to address those cracks. To make sure someone has to "BF."
Increasingly, at every place I've worked, they just offload those to individual engineers and designers. because they're hard to measure with respect to the bottom line or OKRs. The company suffers and engineers burn out because you can only "BF" on extra little tickets and tasks that fell through the cracks for so long without getting paid more.