Why does it always come down to a fist-fight for this guy? He's a computer programmer

Theory: He was a computer programmer, and an unimaginative one at that; all of the enlightenment he received took much time and effort on the part of his teachers. If "the one" had been a painter or sculptor, perhaps a more surreal and perpendicular solution would have presented itself in his mind. But he usually fell back on what he knew, and given the way he was trained upon being freed from the matrix, Neo had a double-major in code and ass-kick and that's it.