I'm all for by-passing the CFI/Instructing route up to a certain point.
I personally don't like the way the whole system is set-up with such new pilots instructing much of the new trainees - civilian or military system.

I wanted to skip this route too at first - not that I wouldn't ever want to be an instructor, but I wanted to be one with some experience outside the training environment before instructing.

I always likened it to a 16 year old who just passed their driver's test taking out some newly permitted 15.5 year old and teaching them how to drive - except a lot more complicated.

This is all different though than not wanting to take the CFI route because they are intimidated by the idea of the checkride or the responsibility. If you choose to make this a career - you will have much harder training, much harder checkrides, and very likely have some reasonability in teaching/mentoring a some point in your career. It is often part of aviation. It is expected in aviation.