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Do others identify epicycles in their thoughts and emotions around computer use?

I find myself mostly drawn to the comfort and aesthetics of simplicity and minimalism. From this. after some time. a drive for the novel arises, a need for learning material, and something to test assumptions against. This exploration and the pulling of the new into my environement eventually results in a aggregation of chaff and dependencies and breakage. As a response, a radical simplification is desired, a purging, a starting over. There is despair, dissatisfaction, and withdraw. Eventually, I re-enage with the simple foundations, #emacs, #lisp, and text, with a few changes from the start of the cycle.

I am sure a psychological model exists to describe this, or a diagnosis. Maybe it's just what self-guided learning at my phase oflife looks like?