Following a plan somebody else wrote for you is still wandering, just in a straighter line.

Clear paths can feel like direction even when the destination was never yours. Someone else picked it, for reasons that made sense to them, and the tidiness of it hides the fact that you never chose. Years can go by like that, productively, with everything on schedule and nothing that you would have chosen if asked.

Ask where the current plan came from, specifically, and whether you would arrive at it now from scratch. You do not have to tear it up. Changing one component to something you actually want is usually enough to make the rest yours.