Software developers, your job *isn’t* to make your work easy. Software development involves a lot of tradeoffs, and if your thought process is “what’s the easiest way to solve this problem?”, you’re not going about it the right way.
Think longer term, bigger picture. Understand that all those fiddly little decisions you need to make day-to-day add up to significant impact on the customer, the team and ultimately the company.
If you hit a bug while looking for some other issue, figure out what’s going on and fix it! If adding a small new feature would make the code unwieldy, restructure. Make sure columns in tables sort correctly - not “technically correct” - but “as the customer would expect”. Think through those frustrating corner cases and deal with them, Expect things to fail and handle errors appropriately!
Day to day micro-decisions from engineers have a massive impact on customer experience, product quality, code quality, and ultimately on the company bottom-line.