And to be honest, the things I am hyper-sensitive about don't seem to really require more brain power. To take a very contrived example, when some company adjusts their logo's color by a smidge, it takes other people a while before they notice a change but I notice it absolutely instantly. To use electronics as an comparison, it's like my brain has a silicon wired to notice color instead of relying on 'general purpose computing' like a lot of other people's brains and so the cost of differentiating color is practically free.
And interestingly, because I am sensitive to color, much of my interests revolve around subjects where color matters (fashion, art, design). I like to meet other people who are equally sensitive to color because they will notice the things that I notice.
For the people who are sensitive to a lot of these, it is more of a curse than gift. Some cant taste the difference between Corn Fed ( or Finished ) and Grass Fed Beef. The colour shift in this article, or how the latest TV perform between OLED, QD-OLED, Four Layer OLED, Mini-LED with different brand.
It turns out being able to "compare" is a skill set in itself. I would assume comparing is also a function that requires more brain power / energy, and most people's natural state would be to conserve that energy.
I have been thinking about this for quite some time. Most people dont know how to compare, or what to compare it to. And precisely because most people dont know how to compare or how not to compare, we need marketing. And I think most successful founder are very good at comparing things. Steve Jobs would be a prime example.