Thank you so much and I agree 100% with everything you said.
I think at heart what I really like doing is just tinkering with different concepts which if you look at my itch page that will back me up.
I used to start each new project rubbing my hands together with all the ideas I'd spent half the night mulling over and that I was on my first steps to realizing my magnum opus 40 hour playable mega RPG.
I'd spend hours messing around trying to reverse engineer RPG Maker to do something that nobody has thought of yet and I'd usually succeed in that.
Then I would forget that I would get bored making hundreds of maps, tapping out filler dialogue for scores of NPCs, trying to make gameplay engaging and the whole project would go in the trash because I was in over my head.
These little mini projects have allowed me to just wing ideas around and execute a finished project with something I had in mind. Sure a lot of them aren't great but I felt fulfilment that I'd actually accomplished something.
Sorry I didn't mean to bang on so long but I appreciate you get what I was going for here!