Comment by fragmede

There is an intellectual horsepower that is needed that not everyone has. The position that I'm stating is that not everyone is smart enough to learn to do, say, Calculus. It's not a matter of motivation and discipline, some people simply are smarter than others. There are other kinds of smarts than logic and spacial reasoning though, and people that are good in one area aren't always good in all the others.

But you're absolutely right - don't gatekeep writing software. It's not that hard and everyone should have access to that realm, even if they don't use it.