I also agree that boring is good, but in our current society you won't get a job for being boring, and when you get a job, it's is guaranteed you are not being paid to solve problems.
That's just your experience, based on your geolocation and chain of events.
One can argue that every other field of engineering outside of Software Engineering, specializes in making complex things into boring things.
We are the unique snowflakes that take business use cases and build castle in the clouds that may or may not actually solve the business problem at hand.
... and if it all falls down, don't blame us - you clicked the EULA /s