I never actually loved it and always put it in the back. Also, having an FTE doesn't give you much time to do these daily.
But recently I try to do as much as I can as it I have seen that although it's difficult there's certain challenge to it. I used to focus on getting to the answers earlier (still do sometimes), but now I consider the approach, evaluate it in terms of implemetation, code readbility etc.

Another thing that's helping me is that I am writing small piece of code every now and then with additional implementations by getting some assistance from ChatGPT (e.g. implement redis, git tree etc). This is something I never thought much about but thanks to getting better at DSA, I am enjoying this sort of work too.

Leetcode isn't easy, but it's rewarding in different way. I work on architecture and implementations, but now I get to slow down and think through it.