This article resonated with me, another fellow pawn script, but I used to do mods in the old half life and counter-strike and some other hl mods.
Similarily I started from ms-dos, pascal from school and slowly went to the html part.
I had the impression that my programming desire just faded in time with so many jobs, but It might be what you described as burnout... who knows, but I learned something from this.
Best of luck!