You've made similar comments throughout this thread. You don't seem to realize that "novel" does not have to mean universally novel. It could be something novel for the individual.
Recently I had one of these "boring" tasks at work. Set up simple CRUD API and hook it up to graphql for the front end to consume. Only the graphql server was implemented in the most strange way I'd ever seen, so figuring that out took longer than I thought it would, oh and devops had completely uprooted the way we connect to databases to increase our security.
The company is far from the last agile company I've ever worked at, but on large, complex teams, what I'm describing is incredibly common. You don't know what you don't know.
Recently I had one of these "boring" tasks at work. Set up simple CRUD API and hook it up to graphql for the front end to consume. Only the graphql server was implemented in the most strange way I'd ever seen, so figuring that out took longer than I thought it would, oh and devops had completely uprooted the way we connect to databases to increase our security.
The company is far from the last agile company I've ever worked at, but on large, complex teams, what I'm describing is incredibly common. You don't know what you don't know.