Having the drive to tinker can have an advantage. And treating it as just a means to an end is not problem at all, one can become a Product Manager or anything

Having the drive to tinker can have an advantage. And treating it as just a means to an end is not problem at all, one can become a Product Manager or anything other than a programmer in the tech industry and that's usually a better occupation than being a monkey for big Corps. Monkey in big Corp here.