Critical to the functioning of society, and often underappreciated in that capacity, are a class of people known as perverts. Now, I do not mean pervert in a strictly sexual sense. I mean this to describe a kind of person who gets disproportionate enjoyment and satisfaction out of a niche interest or specialty. Sexual perverts are of course included in this definition, and are quite useful for a variety of purposes, but nonsexual perverts are about as if not more common.
In almost every field and every realm of life you can find a wide variety of perverts for a wide variety of professional paraphilias. There are, for example, a great many food perverts, ranging from coffee perverts (ex. James Hoffman) to meat perverts (ex. Guga Foods) and beyond. There are programming perverts - I suspect that perhaps a majority of programmers, mathematicians and physicists are some variety of pervert. Engineering perverts are almost certainly critical to the profession, what with your train perverts and beam perverts and so on and so forth. Common among many positions are the warfare and tactics perverts, though they do not always contribute as much to their field directly; see Tom Clancy. STEM, however, pales in comparison to the sheer quantity of arts perverts. There are polyrhythm perverts (ex. Adam Neely), production and noise perverts, phonology and grammar perverts, Early Chinese literature perverts, history perverts, etc. And of course, needless to say, sexual perverts also contribute immensely to the arts.
