Tentative thought experiment / question: similarly to how some people absolutely fly through curricular study and then crumble once they enter the non-perfectly

Tentative thought experiment / question: similarly to how some people absolutely fly through curricular study and then crumble once they enter the non-perfectly-spherical non-vacuum-based real world, maybe you simply never had any significant/blocking issues with learning and integrating programming into practical settings (perhaps due to chance opportunity, IQ or other factors) until recently? Maybe it was a breeze until now, and everything's caught up after burnout...?