Most creative people don't organize their interests around a single goal that gives their work an overall sense of meaning. Instead, they just move horizontally in different directions. As a result, one person tries to make a game entirely on their own, simultaneously working on art, music, story, writing, and programming, but without having a sufficiently deep understanding of any of these skills, ultimately ending up with a piece of shit.
If you put a group of people like that together to work toward one larger goal, the result will still be unprofessional, because none of them has developed deeply in their field they're all moving horizontally rather than vertically. But if the group consists of people who have immediately recognized the value of questioning the main direction of the work itself and developing real expertise, they can achieve a much deeper and more professional result, even though the same amount of time and the same number of people are involved as in the first group.

I like this table, and it reminds me of the concept of Ikigai. But I use it not to search for one single “purpose,” but for prioritization: to understand which areas are actually worth developing, where interest, value, ability, and practical necessity intersect, and where it makes sense to invest my time more deeply instead of spreading myself too thin across everything.