I agree with everything you said, and at the same time, holding those beliefs early in my career held me back immensely. I regret not befriending those strange folks and getting some of that delusional energy, it's useful sometimes, and now, I think, more often than I would have predicted when I was younger.

TLDR; avoid personal dogma in tech, or don't, I'm not your dad, and who's he to tell you what to do anyways?