> Any passionate engineer will recognize this - if you grind 10,000 hours you will find the solution to most problems, the problem is most people lack the motivation to even start, and are too risk averse to play hacker.

This. I'd love to spend my whole day hacking stuff, but I need to pay my bills.

Now with AI tooling my late night/weekend hobby hacking stuff is at least getting done. I'm definitely progressing with things that I began 2 years ago and I had to stop as other life priorities took over.