My dad is a retired driving instructor and has come across people similar to this. Undiagnosed learning difficulties are probably part of it, but in many cases the people that struggled also had English being not a native language. Maybe it is the combination of the two in these extreme cases

Yeah I’d rather he be obsessed with that than the other things he’s been preoccupied with domestically

I don’t think I’ve played a single one of his games and I’m guessing I’m probably not going to start now :p