I agree, but I do think that's kind of an imaginary enemy. I don't know that anyone said "All I do exclusively all year is fix trivial bugs in hacky or minimal ways". Probably what anyone does is a bit of this, a bit of new code writing, and a bit of new feature stuff.

That's essentially what I do. Sometimes bugs are quite mentally demanding to resolve, but a couple weeks of that begins to get really draining, so I try and move onto something more on the implementation side for a bit.