> Similarly I hated being stuck in 30 minutes of bumper-to-bumper traffic during my old commute in a past life.

Being on a motorcycle in a jurisdiction where lane filtering is allowed/tolerated is awesome during rush hour (or any hour, really).

It's awesome but eventually I discovered people wanted to kill me for that honor, and mostly stopped it.

I in fact did that too for a while. Definitely the most fun form of commute.

That said, my biggest gripe with driving/riding as a commute is that I get really bored of taking the exact same route every single day.