Hell yeah! I also work a job with multi hour long stretches of downtime, the difference feom most places is they literally do not give a fuck about you just chilling and don’t give out busy work, so long as the work gets done. Sometimes my stupid puritan brain programming makes me feel lazy, but then I remember this could literally be the reality for like every person on the planet in a just world.
Its funny I did a paper on CRISPR in highschool and was very interested in the technology and one of the possible uses I mentioned was giving people gills to live underwater.