I find it similar to having kids. Most of adults have them, but the impact they have on their lives is so different. It all depends on financial situation, support from the rest of the family, friends, health situation..
In many cases this is not a different league, but an entirely different game with different rules and goals.
The article calls the lack of pro-activeness a CBF, but that is a symptom and not a cause. The fact that you CBF might not necessarily be a problem with you. It could be that you are in a different frame of reference compared to some other people who "do things perfectly".
Maybe moving maximum amount of Jiras into a done state is valued more than delivering this excellent refactoring. Maybe skipping unit tests and dropping feature branch to testers is perceived as a more pragmatic approach. Maybe your perfect commit will be unrecognizable a couple months later, because company is "moving fast".
People with great jobs in great companies will not understand this and call it laziness, procrastination or any other thing that will put you at blame. Just like people with great families will not understand what it means to have abusive parents.
Software development is about processes, but often developers have no say in setting up those processes, there is no feedback loop. Some naive manager will push to maximize some theoretical metric. In some cases you can adapt, circumvent certain obstacles, but sometimes you just CBF.