This is a really hard lesson for a lot of people to learn. Networking, self-promotion, and playing politics at large companies will generally get you a lot closer to executive roles than just doing good work.
Most of your job will be getting people to do things (together, in the right order, without fighting).
But different occupations need a different amount of interpersonal skills: a CEO or TV host need more, while a surgeon or a fighter jet pilot need somehow less.
It all depends on where you want to end up.
You could probably coast along in surgery as well on almost zero interpersonal skills.
If by nature and nature you are in line with said norms, that’s one thing. If you’re not (which isn’t a good or bad thing, just is) then you’ll probably need more of those aforementioned interpersonal skills than someone who “fits the profile” (especially when the profile is maybe not even a deliberate thing that people are aware of), so to speak.
Truth be told learning to develop more interpersonal skills is a _plus_. It’s so valuable in life in general, well beyond the workplace.
You can go very far on essentially zero interpersonal skills, especially if you specialize in pathology or radiology.