My impression is that our society has no idea how to metabolize curve destroyers, and a lot of them end up either with niche obsessions or extremely grumpy (or both).
A lot of them were streamed into math for essentially salience reasons and the lucky ones became researchers, teachers, or quants.
But now there is another way. You can build the Dyson sphere.
The smartest guy ive ever known (real legit 150IQ+ unlike all the liars on Twitter) spent his time on history forums and working on a YouTube channel where he found every bug in the Vanilla Skyrim map and documented them. It got 0-50 views.