It's not a pure dichotomy though. I have always been both, and slowly mixing in agentic coding for work has left me some new headspace to do "trad" programming on side projects at home.

I love the exciting ideation phase, I love putting together the puzzle that makes the product work, and I also take pride in the craft.

I agree with this. Using agents at work has increased the possibility of me having energy left to code by hand at home. So much coding at work is not fulfilling, it is boilerplate and I do not learn anything from writing the Xth variation of the same thing.

Yes, those things should have been automated long ago, but they weren't, and now with coding agents much of them are.