Do you ever feel like you’re making everything except the actual game?

Recently I’ve noticed something weird in my workflow. I sit down to work on my project, but instead of actually building the game, I end up doing everything around it. Setting up systems, fixing small issues, reorganizing stuff, tweaking things that probably don’t even matter yet. It feels productive in the moment, but when I step back, I realize I barely moved forward on the actual gameplay.

And then the next day it’s the same thing again. More fixing, more adjusting, more “just one small thing”. At this point it feels like I’m always busy, but not really progressing, I don’t know if this is just part of the process or if I’m doing something wrong somewhere. Do you guys ever feel like this too?