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Unfortunately too little coding and too much random busywork. Updating random documents, fixing small bugs, updating versions in like 4 higher projects to make sure my new feature actually shows up in the final software. But when coding, it's indeed quite often just adding a random new button or something with all the backend logic as well. And the testing of course.
I'm currently burnt out because we spent months on end doing preparation work, creating all kinds of UML diagrams to prepare for a big rework, only to be put on a different project and do it again. Although I was probably already on my limit before that..
It all sounds a bit negative, but when we're in the normal flow it's still mostly just coding and debugging, two things that I do enjoy. Spending a whole week hunting down some obscure bug that only happens in certain conditions sounds like hell to some, but to me it's like a murder mystery and I love that shit. With complex and large corporate systems there are so many suspects for a bug, it's a real challenge to uncover the mystery and by the time you find it you've learnt a lot about some random part of the application.
I tend to write Java. Many people don't like Java, and honestly it's also not a fancy language. It isn't Rust, Julia, or Haskell, languages that I find very interesting. But at the end of the day I'm not sure I'd pick any of them over Java for building a large application like this. Java is boring because it's quite well designed for large enterprise work. It keeps people from doing too many flashy things that are understood by no-one. It just works (tm). It's fast enough, has great tooling with Maven, does everything pretty well, has lots of libraries to use, and almost everyone can write it.