It really depends upon what decade of Scfi you are talking about.

Early Scifi had the mature; brave leader you are taking about. But they tended to be 1 dementional.

Scifi reflects the period it is written.

I read a book written in 2017. It still featured the boring scientist.

I tried a John Wyndam book. Guess who was the protagonist.

Seriously dude, you read one book, and that reflects all the scifi books written in 2017, congrats.

In my defense I am new to SF.

There's SO MUCH AMAZING SCI-FI.

Get yourself into afrofuturism or post colonial sci-fi.

Check out Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, Nalo Hopkinson, Cixin Liu, Haruki Murakami, to name a few!

You missed the point.

Ah, now I understand what you mean.

Maybe try something like The Murderbot Diaries. The protag is socially inept still, but otherwise nothing like you described, being a manufactured cyborg trying to hide the fact that it has overcome the programing restrictions. Zero romance.

Hyperion, Dune, Suneater, The Expanse, Enders Game, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Red Rising. All good Sci-Fi with the main characters not being scientists

Dune and Ender's Game are awesome.

The Murderbot Diaries sound interesting.

Have you ever met real scientists? Boring, workaholics, and socially inept is an apt description.

Read William Gibson.

Maybe branch out a bit my man. Try "Fahrenheit 451." It's incredible to me how many authors from decades past nailed the shift in society as technology is integrated more and more in our lives.

Maybe you want some hard scifi. (There's a difference)

Scifi is a big umbrella my friend and from what I gather you stuck your toe in a muddy pond and decided you have a problem with the ocean.

Read that one. The protagonist is quite cool.

There is so much Sci-Fi out there, it’s impossible to even be aware of it all. You just gotta explore

I love weird scifi like Flatland, Dancers at the End of Time, The Culture, the Cenobites in Hellraiser, strange concepts and strange visuals, but that sort of "grey people in grey jumpsuits on a grey ship" scifi usually puts me off... unless it's the first Alien movie

It's not always but I know what you mean lol, if it's not Scientist Guy, it's Soldier Guy who has an authority problem

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Try some Adrian Tchaikovsky - intelligent arachnid protagonists and other wonderful, nontraditional sci-fi that always leave me feeling like I better understand the world or have something new to think about.

Or, for something happy and slice of life-ish, Becky Chamber's Wayfarer series, or Monk and Robot. Uplifting and hopeful, with none of the things you didn't enjoy.

Also, I second Murderbot. Murderbot is wonderful, and one of the few series I enjoy more as an audiobook if that's your jam.

Some others you may like:

{{A Scanner Darkly}} best book about drugs ever.

{{Flowers for Algernon}} the saddest book ever. The protag DOES become attracted to the first member of the opposite sex he knows, but it makes complete sense because he is sheltered to an impossible extent.