There are dozens of other things you might be great at, and every minute you're spent flogging the dead horse of becoming a coding genius, you're missing out on the opportunity to practice something you're really talented at.
I can't imagine how someone with 10 years of programming experience would make this assumption.
Meh this is just cope. The things you are talented at may not be valuable, they may be outside of your reach, specifically if you’ve wasted enough time that your time for discovery is over. Flogging that dead horse probably pays the bills at least (unless you’re a total incompetent, in which case, yes find something ) and then some.
To be fair it sounds like OP found something else, but I’ve known people who never did or never could.
Personally, I'm not a great developer, but I was even worse at all of the other things I put a lot of time and effort into. And at the end of the day I do enjoy programming. So remaining an average developer it is.