Are other software engineering jobs more fun?

I just completely changed careers to software, following my passion and gift for solving problems and writing code. While I don't regret the move, I've been a little disappointed. Things get done so slowly at my job. I feel like my natural talent and passion get wasted. I also get to do very limited interesting work. I'm not a fresh college grad - I'm used to the corporate world and expected some frustrations and I didn't expect to always be doing something cool. But I was hoping for a little more excitement. To make matters worse, the tools we use are excessively complex and clunky and in the short time I've been here, we've had several outages of our version control and issue tracking systems. And a lesser, but still important point is that my talent will never mean much. Being new means I'm not as fast as I'd like to be. But half of my work is process so the best I can do is really a 2x improvement. I wonder, is it just the company I work