The ideal reason to be engineer number one tbh is if you want a playground (for lack of a better way of putting it) to build the system out the way you want. That will be of high value to specific people (Architects, not the LinkedIn kind) and low value to most of the population who just sees a job as a means to an end.

But for some people, direct access to an AWS account and license to build as they please is intoxicating.