I've wanted to quit tech, and recently resumed drawing, so I want to ask:

Do you want to quit tech because you don't enjoy the tech, or because of the people and culture in tech? If it's because of the people and culture, then do you believe the people and culture in an art career would be any better?

While investigating drawing recently, I learned that it can be approached in a very technical way, and that there are many different areas of study. I found it to be more similar to programming, in this way, than I would have expected.

I love programming and the tech, but I don't like the culture very often. I've been frustrated with the CEO at my company, who sells our amazing software and AI. What we really have is a basic CRUD app (which we've managed to make very buggy and unreliable) and our AI is humans who manually review things. Yet I believe the CEO is sincere in his delusions. I've been appreciating drawing because there can be no such delusions. What you see is what's there, and our brains are very good at detecting oddities and making them very apparent. It seems to leave much less room for self-deception.