I think one factor that people forget when they see someone else that dive headfirst into something like low level programming or electrical engineering and then wonder why they haven’t is because maybe you just don’t care.

I did personally get a degree in EE and have worked on low level programming (and funnily enough I do a lot of frontend these days), but there are things that still wow me like people writing game engines. I tried working on game engines briefly and I never got anywhere.

I eventually realized that I just don’t care about game engines or making games for that matter. I wasn’t willing to put in the effort. Watching other people build game engines is more of a spectator sport for me. And that’s fine.

But when I do find something that makes me really happy, it keeps me up thinking all day and night about it.