Hi, this is me. I do extremely little at my job. I get paid around $100k which isn't a ton by FAANG standards but it's comfortable for my two bedroom house I'm renting. I drive a cheap car and eat out frequently but I'm pretty frugal. I'll never be able to afford actually buying a house where I live but most youngerish people can't either (average is around $750k).
I was a developer for many years and absolutely hated having a permanent record of my productivity via commits. I hated that I couldn't just fuck around and do nothing on a given day without there being a glaring spot tarnishing my commit history. I hated the lack of diversity in what I was doing. I hated building shit that was pointless and stupid. And I've been programming since I was a teenager and I'm sick of it.
The advice I've seen here but maybe not in the exact same words that I agree with: do a tech job in a non-tech company. But specifically NOT programming. And make sure it's a really tech-stupid company. This all describes my current employer.
I'm an "architect" for my company's very small tech team. The most time consuming aspect of my job is sitting on zoom meetings, of which I have maybe 5 hours a week worth. My work outside those meetings is at most another 5 hours with a few exceptions. I've had many weeks where it was 0 hours outside meetings, and it's rare that I ever talk in the meetings I sit in on. I mostly have to build out the occasional documentation, send some emails, and generally just check boxes to make sure shit isn't going to break. I definitely needed my development background to get this job and I do use my dev knowledge frequently, but you could be the world's shittiest developer and still do my job just fine.
I really want to get paid more. I want to be able to actually buy a home. Maybe in a couple-few years I will start applying to some other place but only if it pays $150k+, and given how fucking little do I my job I think it would be really hard to sell myself for a role like that unless I just lie my ass off.