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When I went back to college for a degree in networking during the pandemic it was similar. A few people were clearly there without any passion or natural affinity to IT, some had the natural affinity and/or passion but couldn't keep up, and ultimately out of the 50 or so students who I started with in the fall of the first year, only about 12 of us made it to graduation. There was a group of 30+ year olds launching second careers who helped eachother work through it all (I don't think any of them had the natural affinity but maybe the passion), and a group of 20 year olds who had a natural affinity for tech who made it, and I fell somewhere in the middle age-wise (but I have both the passion and the natural affinity)
I have a junior colleague like that, he's even confessed out loud that he chose to become a programmer because he thought it was a good career. He got his first job and immediately realized that he absolutely hated it but by then, according to him, it was too late to change careers, better just power through it.
His code is so sloppy, he always does the bare minimum to get the task done (for example copy and pasting the same code seven times, with bugs, instead of creating a new function), he really doesn't care. I've been assigned to clean up after him so many times it's not even funny.