Yeah, that's true - but the primitive conditions are a constraint that breeds creativity. I love to build tools, and embedded systems work offers lots of excuses for what would be called "reinventing the wheel" if you did it on a PC. No print? I'll write my own! No debugger? I'll build one! No autocomplete? Don't care, I never use it anyway! IDE sucks? Ehh, whatever, I'll use the terminal! Serial port driver doesn't work? Bootloader crashes? No idea what's going on? Well... okay, I'll debug it by making this LED blink!

But yeah, if that's not what gets you going, then embedded work is not for you.