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Be who you want to be.

If it feels disorganize then organize it.

If it feels chaotic then order it.

If it feels bad then make it better.

You want meaning but yet write passively about it, lamenting why it hasn't been given to you for just being paid to show up somewhere in tshirt and jeans for eight hours.

Here's the lesson: you make it up.

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Even more broadly, what do you want out of life? Are you just going to work every day because that's what people do, or do you have a goal? Your life's purpose is yours to define, and you need to figure out whether employment (with this company, in this team, in this industry, etc.) is moving you toward your goal(s). If not, change. The OP didn't really describe any goals, and it's impossible to make sensible decisions without a reasonably clear idea of the desired end state. "I want to get better somehow" isn't a goal, so the various options can't be evaluated against it.

Yah, see the codebase as a message-in-a-bottle to programmers down the road years from now. Use your work with it as a way of saying, "this is how i think it should be done." Your skills can grow, the company benefits, and you can be more proud of/satisfied with your work.

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