Math achievement correlates strongly with visuospatial reasoning. Programmers may not be as proficient in math as economists, but they are better at it than biologists or lawyers.
For people like myself with aphantasia, there are often problems solving strategies that can help you when you can’t visualize. Like draw a picture.
And lots of problems don’t really require as much visual imagination as you would think. I’m pretty good at math, programming, and economics. Not top tier, but pretty good.
If there are problems out there that you struggle with compared to others, then that’s the universe telling you that you don’t have a comparative advantage in it. Do something else and hire the people who can more easily solve them if you need it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_visualization_ability
You probably are high g (iq), which has, historically at least, dominated other factors in determining overall outcomes.
It's one of the reasons I like computer graphics so much: the computer does the rotation for you! Stereo graphics (using the funny LCD glasses) was a true revelation to me, and learning how to rotate things using matrics was another.