I too have a love/hate relationship with Houston. I hated it when I lived there and miss it now that I don’t. It’s fun to visit but I also quickly remember all the reasons I hated living there and not sure I could do it again.
This is close to how I really feel about Houston - love/hate. There is a lot to love but there is also a lot to dislike. It took me several years of driving freeways around DFW where traffic is a lot less stressful to unlearn all the aggressive driving habits that I picked up as survival skills on Houston freeways.
If I needed to live there again I would carefully scout everything so that I had an easy way in and out and to and from work. That more than anything would help make like in Houston manageable.