Comment by MPSimmons
>Does it mean that we shouldn't write code or shouldn't try to get better at it? Not at all. When working in a team, what matters most is that the weakest developer be at the very least competent. The rest is to try to build and maintain the company's product and features.
Yes. A company doesn't exist to hire programmers who write code. Software development is a means to an end.
That's in theory, in practice a very large amount of companies only hire dev to bring jira tickets to completion where engineers are kept in a complete bubble and will never speak to a single actual customer.