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I'd be trying to make better use of this tendency and talent, not trying to curtail it.

you are clearly missing the point, and probably feel like you have that tendency and talent yourself

Not at all. Im more of an all rounder. I just like to see people matched to tasks which suit their temperament and talent.

I hate seeing people who would rather be doing customer interaction half heartedly refuctoring while people who live and breathe code sit on customer calls bored out of their minds.

I also feel a little disgusted at seeing talent wantonly squandered unnecessarily.

I'm having kind of a hard time imagining how such position would look like. Only working on greenfield projects, moving onto the next project once the codebase gets intolerable?

What such position? Im a little unclear on what you're asking.

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