Does it ever get easier?

I've been drawing almost every day for the last ~5 years and while my skill ceiling and understanding have increased a ton, drawing anything is still a struggle and feels like crawling uphill, I can't just sit down and draw something from imagination in my style and make it look good

I see other artists making immense strides in style and drawing from imagination in a couple of years but drawing anything for me still involves collecting a ton of references and touching stuff up for hours for multiple days in a row and a good result always feels like lucky experimentation rather than an intentional and calculated decision on my end