I am a tech consultant and I also play the piano. My ADHD makes it hard for me to do both, one a hobby I love, another work I do to pay the bills - the idea that you posit makes it seem like a motivation thing but that is hardly the case with ADHD.
My son had fairly extensive two day evaluation for ADHD. The test itself was not even close to finding out how things worked in everyday life. It was activities and exercises designed to understand how his brain worked. It was super-enlightening to me to get an idea of what challenges he was facing. Simply having the evaluation and having the results shown and explained did wonders for our ability to support him in school and beyond.
In any cases, this is a really long-winded way to agree with you. It's about how your brain works, not about functioning in life situations. That said, some situations will make it more or less apparent that your brain works in a certain way.