I guess that's probably a lot of why I don't get it, I never had any programmer role models. I looked up to Adam and Jamie, and
I never saw them doing serious code.
The stuff I was really excited about was mostly "tech in the physical world" related.
Although with the AI boom, and how I'm too clumsy for jobs involving driving... I might be making a lot more if I'd at least tried to focus on the pure programming stuff instead of embedded, even though I never had any real talent for advanced algorithms...