Those questions can also work against you if your career has been relatively drama free.

Like yeah, there have been some incidents during my background as a software engineer, good and bad, but they were pretty straight forward events. Incidents were simple to correct. The further I got into my career, the less often anything memorable has happened. I'd struggle to remember the last time I had to put out a fire or struggle to implement a novel solution. As you say, I have lessons I've learned, but my memory doesn't linger on a lot of individual events.

I think I've gotten pretty good at handling said interview questions, but internally I'm shrugging my mind's shoulders.