Maybe you should think about it less as "coddling" and more as "people are different and stuffing them into the same box is runs the very real risk of failure or unhappiness." But that doesn't validate your own life choices the way your posts do, so I can understand why you might not.

The idea that "everyday life" should demand that everyone operate in cognitively subpar conditions for them because you like them is a silly one. The last time I woke up before 9AM when I didn't have a flight to catch the next morning was 2013; I will have been successfully running my own consultancy (and making half again as much money with about half the work that the "everyday life" equation specified) for three years now at the end of this month.

Weird how that life works and works well without sneering at people who do like to get up and work early.

Nothing says "normal demands of everyday life" like bouncing quarters off of bedsheets

I also have a hard time waking up before 10 now.

I stay up late. I sleep late.