Funny you say that. Because I have never enjoyed management as much as being hands on and directly solving problems.

So maybe our common ground is that we are direct problem solvers. :-)

For some reason this makes me think of a jigsaw puzzle. People usually complete these puzzles because they enjoy the process where on the end you get a picture that you can frame if you want to. Some people seem to want to get the resulting picture. No interest in process at all.

I guess that's the same people who went to all those coding camps during their hay day because they heard about software engineering salaries. They just want the money.