How about the type of developer who comes up with statistics and made up "camps" as if enjoying the craft itself makes you, out of necessity of the false premise, unable to enjoy the fact that what you made is useful enough to people that they choose your product because you are obsessed with making a good work?

John Carmack has talked about it in a podcast a few years ago, and he's the closest popular programmer that I can think of who was simply obsessed with milking every tiny ounce of GPU performance, yet none of his effort would matter if Doom and Quake weren't fun games.