At big tech companies when times are good, many people are sitting around waiting for paint to dry. (Ie some nutty process) Remember they are a profit center and get slacktime and fancy stuff.
Ditto outside of engineering. I knew one SE with a pretty big territory who travelled with his wife. They were swingers. The dude would just setup random meetings so the company would spring for their hotel. We’d get our steak dinner, they would get their freak on. At the end, he’s pulling in 3% of whatever crap we were buying.
That's already more than I have; I get my job satisfaction from my job, I like to spend my free time with family and hobbies that don't involve more work.
But, different strokes for different people; I like playing video games, others like writing code for fun.