Does working with low quality people/clients affect your design thinking and skills??

Been thinking about this a lot lately, need to vent and also get some perspective. So it's been quite some time I'm working at this company. My very first client for this agency was actually another venture from the co-founder himself. He gave me full creative freedom and a really good timeline to design a sports brand slash community type thing, and I also designed jerseys for him. At that time I was almost a year into experience. I had done UX internships, worked part time as a graphic designer for some finance and other companies, but this was my first ever sports branding work and my first jersey design experience. I went through different tutorials and resources online Took almost a week to learn jersey design from zero Designed it, went through 6-7 iterations until I was satisfied and the client was satisfied Honestly such a fun learning experience. But then actual clients started coming into the agency, and it's been a completely different story: Most of them are low quality, zero ambition type clients They just want "post something on social media, whatever" I end up just using templates or prompting AI for these posts So many rounds of iterations and input, but they're not open to any creative input from me It's basically just hand holding, making whatever is already in their head I kept telling myself it's fine, I'm making money off them and I can keep my creative side alive through personal or side projects. But now I'm hitting a point where I genuinely feel my design thinking and my skills are getting dull. Like whenever I face a new problem now, my first instinct is to open ChatGPT or look for a template, or just straight up procrastinate. I feel like a big part of this is the environment too. The clients are demotivated, and honestly my founder and co-founder are treating them the same way, like "they're paying, so we'll just post for them," nobody's really serious about the work anymore. So has anyone else gone through this? If yes, how did you get your spark back? How do you go back to actually feeling inspired and creating stuff with soul again?