Interesting speculation. That describes my childhood/adolescence, and I'm a scientist.

it is possible to live without strong personal friendships and without membership in informal or formal status-improvement or status-preservation coalitions, which would tend to give one the courage to ignore the usually very strong human drives for friendship membership in formal and informal coalitions (clubs, associations, organizations, communities, subcultures, etc).

And yet, here we are. Most clever, focused people eventually start to think about their own experience - what types of satisfaction they're built to need or at least appreciate, and how to rationally allocate effort toward securing competence in pursuit of each type of satisfaction a person can feel.