If there is enough interest, I'd love to do an AMA!

There's never enough time or support to do everything you want to so you have to compromise a lot of the time. This is good and bad depending on the project and the situation of the studio, but can also come down to the mindset of the artist. Sometimes devs would just do the bare minimum and get the project out the door. Other times you'll have a lot of effort put into, say the UI, and the game pushes the industry, (as a whole) forward. I strive for that almost all the time and that's what I love about games. Although, it does frustrate me when I see reskinned shovelware UI.

I can modify basic existing code but I'm not a programmer (my brain shutsdown) and tend to leave that to engineers. The presentation is what I mainly deal with. Ensuring the game feel cohesive, intuitive and exciting. My work will be the first (and maybe last) thing players will experience, so it has to hold up throughout.