Surely that applies to ANYONE who's career-driven?
Anyone who lets their career get in the way of having a life will end up tending towards that (which shall be known as the Bullock Limit).
If you're driven to, say, spend 40 years creating some tech-box it will naturally become a focus of your life. I've done it on a smaller scale, went about a year without seeing friends because there was cool stuff to do.
It's a choice to have kids, and once you've had them it's a choice to stay away from the workforce for a significant length of time (i.e. over a year). A good choice in both respects, but it is a choice.
Working hard, focussed on a single goal is also a choice. In some cases a choice just as damaging to your career- if it fails or even if the wrong management get in the consequences can be disasterous.
Both can lead to you being alone
If you're successful it can mean sitting atop a very lonely tower, feeling accomplished but longing for the warmth of human contact.
If you have kids it can mean looking up that tower, basking in a warm glow from the love from your kids but wondering just how far up the tower you could have got.
Some people end up falling off the tower or wandering off from the base and still end up cold and alone, no-one to love them.
Life is choices. Choices have consequences.