FIREd Individuals - Left Work Or Just Bad Job?

For those already FIREd: was it really the work you wanted to escape, or was it one specific job? I keep reading posts here from people a year or two in. A lot of them say some version of the same thing: I actually like working. I just couldn't stand my manager, or the hours, or the commute, or the politics. And then a bit further down, the other recurring theme: the hardest part wasn't money, it was the lack of an enforced structure. Slipping into lethargy with no schedule. So I'm curious about something specific: If your job had been the same work with a decent manager and forty honest hours, would you still have left? How long did it take before the free time stopped feeling like relief and started feeling shapeless? Weeks? Months? Never? And has anyone gone back, not because they ran out of money, but because they missed doing something? How did that go? I'm writing about a different approach: taking repeated funded breaks across a career instead of one permanent exit. Part of why is that I suspect a lot of people who FIRE didn't need to escape work permanently. They needed to escape a situation, and permanent exit was the only tool they had. Could be completely wrong about that. Tell me if I am.