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I'm an embedded software engineer, too. While I love my job (for the time being) I definitely need to do other stuff with my free time. A junior colleague of mine couldn't understand why I bake my own bread rolls when I could save so much time by just buying them, but I'm sure in time he'll get there.
I'm convinced that there is a flaw deep down in the basics of our culture that essentially says that success and prosperity and a good modern life all mean that you don't need to actually do shit for yourself. All you need to do is make enough money at the job where you presumably actually do productive work, then you can pay some person or some company to take care of all the other shit in life.
No doubt it's a side effect of, if not a primary design feature of, our hyper-capitalist mindset. The ideal citizen is either working or consuming during all waking hours.
Sometimes accomplishing a goal in the way that's the most expensive and takes the most personal effort is actually the best way to go about it, assuming you count "improves my life" in your ROI calculation and not just the dollars in and out.