I wasn't always a VR developer leading my own dream project, and I didn't get to be where I am by crying about "why should I know this? I don't need it for my job every single minute of every single day."

You know what my first job was out of college after graduating with the highest GPA in my major? QA tester. That's all I could get. I had to beg to get commit access to fix bugs I found that I knew exactly how to fix.