10 times programmers don't exist. Maybe a 2 or a 3 time engineer at most. That doesn't take away from your valuable contributions to the projects you have worked on. However, as you describe, you get brought in to solve a specific problem. You don't have to worry about compliance training, town halls, sucking up to managers and the other endless time sinks you have as a permanent employee.

The reason ten times programmers don't exist, as programming is hardly ever just about spitting out lines of code. More often than not you have to spend time clarifying fuzzy requirements, getting cross team alignment on requirements or spend significant time on getting your code peee reviewed and build on less than efficient CI/CD systems.

The myth of the ten times engineers is propagated by management. Senior management love to claim they hire the top 5% of the market, something that is statistically impossible.