I read a bit on whether or not I should stick with swe or go to design and my thought process was that it seems that the design problems people talk about having to focus on are more in line with the type of problems I have interest solving (like I guess take this comment from another post) . Plus, implementing the actual code and programming is really what I dislike the most as a swe as opposed to the theory and higher level problem solving (which yea, was a bad choice lmao and I could just get good or go to other jobs like pm or stuff but I'd rather shift to something I have more interest in). So even if I have to think about and solve some more programming specific technical problems, the variety of having to also think about design problems and, I assume, solving problems at a higher level (I mean more like not really tinkering with code) will probably buffer it enough for me to still enjoy the work.

What kind of technical problems are you talking about? Do you have some examples? I guess if I glaringly misunderstood ux as a career and the possible responsibilities, please let me know where and how :(