As someone who creates and works with music constantly, I've found that over the years I've been losing the ability to just enjoy music without thinking about it too much. It's hard for me nowadays to just listen to a song as a song. I always start analyzing the mix and chords and whatnot and it's very hard for me to pay attention to lyrics if there's some cool product trick I recognize. Do you find this happening to you at all?
it probably happens in the field of whatever stage of learning you are going through. for example, if you are learning how to paint apples, you're going to see a lot of apple painting everywhere. one day when you have more thoroughly assimilated apple painting into your life, you will not be so fixated on that but something else instead which you are currently learning