There's plenty of "impressive" people who make a lot less money than extremely mundane people. And I mean a lot less money. Like they make orders of magnitude less cash. We literally live in the YouTuber age where you can become a multimillionaire by making the stupidest, most useless videos imaginable. You can provide negative value to society and be more financially successful than the sort of "impressive" person you describe. It's enough to seriously warp one's sense of right and wrong but it is what it is and there's nothing we can do about it. So can we really fault people for doing the things which reward them?

Assuming "impressiveness" leads to success is the real dead end. I think these people get to be "impressive" because they're actually rich enough to not care what managers want. You said it yourself: "leaving some workplace for being a poor fit to its needs and capabilities". If you can afford to do this, then of course you can be as unique as you want with no consequences. If the managers start raining on your parade, you just quit.