There is no reason everyone has to follow the same path to exceptionality. By definition. And I suspect there are many of us here who have explored many areas of interest before settling (for the time being) on a field of focus. Nor do I believe that one has to remain on that one thing indefinitely.

This can be more difficult to "package", of course, which is but one of the reasons that packaging is a very low priority for us.

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...