I believe it’s his lack of upper facial movement to match the extremely flexed mouth muscles. It’s not a genuine smile. It’s very forced and we can perceive that despite not knowing why.

Oh absolutely! I tried to make a career of an interest once before and it killed my passion for it. I would be devastated if that happened with my tech love.

As a kid, dad set me up on one of his spare dos/win3.1 PCs when he was working. The passion and learning never stopped from that point. Just not something I want to make a career of.