I attribute most of my success to luck, but also in finding a career path in my 30's that actually rewarded my neurodivergence. I took 6 years to finish undergrad, after changing majors a few times. I started and aborted 3 different career fields before finding the one that works for me and actually gives me an opportunity to use different knowledge and interests across completely unrelated fields. Now that I'm a lawyer in civil litigation, I only need to have knowledge and experience in court procedure, but most of my work is spent on research techniques and translating the real world messiness of whatever random thing has gone wrong into proper analogies for legal arguments. My tendency towards new rabbit holes to explore actually works at learning a new industry or new company just enough to be able to represent someone in it, and then getting out and starting over to do another thing in another case.

To extend your analogy, it's like I'm in thick brush where running fast on a flat surface isn't the most useful skill. If I were forced to fend for myself in an open field, I'd be fucked, but I thrive where I am because I'm good at the things that matter in this particular environment.