It hits the exact same endorphin system as “one more turn” style games like Civ. You can manage a few cities and keep them healthy, but the rest of your empire eventually regresses into a set of chores. Any time you encounter one of your zero growth cities you just queue some thoughtless production automation to keep it out of your “next turn” cycle as long as possible.

It sounds silly but lately I've been able to hit flow states doing exactly this.

i hate that there are so many worktrees now that its a real pain to find the actual file and modify it by hand.

there are so many stupid little changes (e.g., rewording or deleting their numerous comments) that would be done better and faster by me but it's usually just less cumbersome to keep asking the machine to tweak it instead.

exactly, it's like Bobby Fischer playing 10 games of chess simultaneously

But it feels more exhausting and stressful.