Well, tech is full of famous smarties who, let's say, have famously underperformed in the emotions department.

If the tech world got filled with similarly emotionally unaware folks who idolize the smarties, it's quite likely they interpret those two traits as a package deal and emulate both.

Since most technies aren't famously smart, the emotional unawareness at least gets them 1 out of 2.

This rank speculation explains why technies get famously angry when asked to be even minimally aware of the effect their behavior has on others.