It's not that simple. If Da vinci would have been forced to sit in a pod all day every day, having meetings every morning about how much progress he thought he would make on some painting that he knew he would just be redoing again in 6 months after a management change, he probably would have grown to hate what he loved.

The thing I've personally found is that if you love coding it's probably best to get a job that doesn't involve coding. Coding (like most art I would imagine) is something you can really poor yourself into, take great pride in success and really be crushed by failure. As a consequence, doing this 40+ hours per week takes out of you any desire to do it outside of work. And of course that is problematic when you hope to use coding to become financially independent.

The sad reality is that more or less all jobs have some component of tedium to them.