The same plight is shared by any creative person. If programming makes you miserable, you're doing it wrong. The feeling of sublime satisfaction when something finally runs and does what you expect far outclasses any transient misery inflicted by the terse crowing of the compiler.

Any path worth walking is fraught with forks that lead you through brambles and strife before returning to the main road. The painter seeks the one perfect brush stroke that comes next; the carpenter seeks the perfect arrangement of nails and dead trees. If there weren't a thousand thousand ways to do it wrong, it wouldn't feel so wonderful when you finally got it right.

This is a feature, not a bug.