Does it help to be good at it?
Aristotle
Yes, more than almost anything else available to you inside a job — and less than you want it to.
Aristotle thought excellence was not a feeling but a way of functioning: a is a stable disposition you build by repetition, the way you get good at an instrument rather than the way you adopt a belief. Exercising a developed capacity is intrinsically satisfying in a way that no amount of recognition for undeveloped work ever is. This is why a hard problem you are equal to beats an easy day.
It also explains an odd pattern — people leaving comfortable roles for harder ones and describing it as relief. Underuse is its own misery, and it does not announce itself as misery. It arrives as restlessness.
What craft gives you is a standard internal to the work. You can tell whether it was done well without asking anyone, which puts a floor under you that no reorganisation can move. Aristotle would add — knowing what this particular situation calls for, which cannot be reduced to procedure and is the thing that takes years.
The limit is real, though. Craft makes the hours better. It does not touch who owns the output, and it does not answer the question of whether the satisfaction lasts.