I’ve encountered a pattern where people that respect me see me as “more” than a software developer when I reach out into my network to do dev work I’ve run com

I’ve encountered a pattern where people that respect me see me as “more” than a software developer when I reach out into my network to do dev work I’ve run companies, and done manager roles within organizations, I’m prideful of my coding abilities and find it more powerful of a skillset than management Its objective to me to want to do individual contributor software dev work, and seeing how the corporate ladder has morphed into leveling to accommodate that, its really surprising and antiquated to hear their word choice of “more” than a developer and its also sad to see how two-faced they are to their employees then, where they are seemingly gaslighting employees to being prideful of their wage work while being relieved to be exempt from that amongst people in the founder or capital tier that they respect I like the build for fun and profit