I'm not in as prestigious a line of work as you are but I've found the exact same thing happens in my industry (web development, mostly).
Everyone wants to think of the cool ideas to make things work, but few people want to think of all the ways those ideas can break, fail, fail to be future-proof, be expensive, etc, etc whereas I relish in it; what's more satisfying than helping make a proposed or existing solution even better?
But the same applies to stuff outside of work, too. I find I'm quite negative about stuff in the exact same way and whilst it's fun to think "how could we fix this, how could we make it better", all people see it as is negativity and social pressure has made me start to rethink this approach in life. It's better to keep your mouth shut and let the fire start than to open your mouth and be negative, as per your analogy.
Hell it even applies to traditionalism; "we should put out that fire" "but that fire's always been there, that's the way it's always been" "but it's a fire!!!" "yeah, well it was here before you and we like it. That fire walked uphill both ways through the snow to get to school".
Everyone wants to think of the cool ideas to make things work, but few people want to think of all the ways those ideas can break, fail, fail to be future-proof, be expensive, etc, etc whereas I relish in it; what's more satisfying than helping make a proposed or existing solution even better?
But the same applies to stuff outside of work, too. I find I'm quite negative about stuff in the exact same way and whilst it's fun to think "how could we fix this, how could we make it better", all people see it as is negativity and social pressure has made me start to rethink this approach in life. It's better to keep your mouth shut and let the fire start than to open your mouth and be negative, as per your analogy.
Hell it even applies to traditionalism; "we should put out that fire" "but that fire's always been there, that's the way it's always been" "but it's a fire!!!" "yeah, well it was here before you and we like it. That fire walked uphill both ways through the snow to get to school".