How do you come up with interesting chord progressions? I use the Software Scaler 2 so I guess I am cheating a bit.
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A long time ago during guitar lessons. I had a book filled with nothing but chord progressions.
I would practice some of them and give me inspiration to come up with my own melodies.
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I took music in high school and forgot it. Then a few years ago I took a music theory beginner course on udemy. It gave all the basics and I build chords and progression pretty easy now. I don’t think the basics are hard at all.
When I get around to it I’m also gonna study jazz and try to really learn the craft. 
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One simple trick is to learn a bunch of songs and see how they use chords. Also to learn how to see chords as intervals. IE: instead of E A B, I IV V. Also learn modes
Theres also a lot more technical ways of learning what is actually happening when a piece modulates or borrows chords from other scales. But I learnt it first from just playing other people’s songs and copying certain interesting chords that don’t belong in the scale.
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