It seems like people making contributions to the C and C++ standards are also at risk of getting burnt out: https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23
> It was all worth it.
> …
> Or. That’s what I keep telling myself. Because it doesn’t feel like it was worth it. It feels like I wasted a lot of my life achieving something so ridiculously basic that it’s almost laughable. How utterly worthless I must consider myself, that hearing someone complain about putting data in C++ 5 years ago put me on the track to decide to try to put something in a programming language standard. That I had to fight this hard for table scraps off the Great C Standard’s table.
> What a life, huh?