While most players that are still trying after one year enjoy making chords and playing scales they also do not enjoy sitting and just switching chords.
To me practice time is the time spent just switching chords making sure each string that should ring does clearly or scales are done correctly or... It’s creating muscle memory that later will allow the player to “do it” without thought. I also think building chord memory is more important than building scale memory. Songs are made of chords, so the faster you master just switching chords the faster you will play songs better. Free your mind to think other things.
Myself, I have played different finger picking patterns so long, I can look down at my right hand and watch it pick the strings and do its thing. Never thinking I have to do this or that, it just does it. Most open chords and bar chords are the same way. Mind you, I have tried some blue grass picking and my right hand is as dumb as a mud fence. I have to tell it everything I want it to do.
I often mix practice and playing as I go. I also like to split time between electric and acoustic. Each pulls something deferent from me.