Do people who excel at what they do find better satisfaction in their work?
When I first became a programmer I was obsessed with clean code and architecture principles but would lose every debate about it with my co-workers, and always end up rewriting my code to match some principle someone follows. This would happen at every job and became very stressful and unpleasant. Now I have accepted that I will never be a first class code architect and although I am very secure in my developer skills, I don't really get involved in coding debates. I am content to let other people do the architecting and just tell me what to do, and much happier for it. I found other strengths I have on the job.
Think of it as the intersection between "No work is ever wasted" and "The reward for good work is more work." It's a messy amalgam of random ideas somehow coalescing into new products/features in the nick of time, every time.
But, I think it varies by person. Some people are happy at factories, others ...