Nobody is truly that "cut out" for programming. We might be emotional and biological machines, but we aren't logical circuit boards. As humans, we are wired to appreciate patterns in life and relationships, not binary 1s and 0s. However, coding patterns like decision trees, loops, recursions, etc. also do feel interesting as long as they produce interesting and utilitarian software which feels like magic.
But when the drudgery of programming sets in and all you're seeing is just heaps and mounds of instructions that need hours to fathom their working, even the best of programmers feel like leaving the field and running away! And that's exactly why things like no-code, low-code, AI assisted development, frameworks and packages, etc. are becoming so popular increasingly. Humans aren't "natural" programmers in that sense, they're primarily story tellers and meaning seekers in life.
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I had no business taking up Computer Science in college. My math skills were terrible and I had zero interest in engineering. I stumbled around for 4 years trying to figure it out and graduated hardly prepared to code professionally. I worked hard and listened in my first few years and survived with COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM and JCL. Over a 15 year period knew it inside and out and the patterns just came to me. Leap 2 into object oriented code and C#.NET, Java, Python, Angular, React and much more. Now with 35 years at it I'm bald,gray and semi retired but the code keeps my mind sharp and plugged in.