I remember having similar feelings. In hindsight, I was right, and also, it's made very little difference once I got out into the real world. The number of peo

I remember having similar feelings. In hindsight, I was right, and also, it's made very little difference once I got out into the real world. The number of people who use their brains for more than getting a better paycheque is small, shockingly so. If you look up the people who've made all the popular javascript libraries of the past decade as one small example - you'll see that none of them are geniuses. They just had an itch that needed scratching. If you have that much, you're way ahead of the game, don't worry about the rest.