Ironically it takes some pragmatism to accept that this is an instinctual thing. If you saw that a baker was just reselling baked goods from a supermarket you would not call them a baker, but you would be happy with them purchasing flour.

Being a "maker" starts when you want to existentially vanish whatever is providing you the interface, whichever that is, from copper wires, to a hacky Chinese PLC software which works only in Windows XP SP 1 with the manual translated to English by a word randomizer, to a fancy GraphQL API. And if your current interface is not hurting you, making you to want to hurt it back, remove it from existence altogether and start from scratch, one layer deeper in the stack, well, you are not a maker. And that is fine, enjoy your interface.

Proposal: Being a "maker" starts when one's addition —the stone one brings to the soup— is both novel and useful.

(the systems integrator may be doing something useful —certainly something lucrative!— while hardly novel; the shade-tree github'er probably has a directory full of explorations that are novel but not —at least not yet?— useful...)

Is Frankenstein human? Configuration is not creation.