Comment by sanderjd

Maybe! But I think this is very debatable, or at least, impermanent.

To me, it is very reminiscent of when I was a wee lad and there was a prevalent view that no real developer would want to make web applications, that was for script kiddies. But it turned out to be a useful kind of software to build, so a lot of people who build software started building web applications.

I also think that lots of developers do naturally enjoy increasingly higher levels of work than "just" writing code, as they progress in their careers. The job of "staff+ engineers" has significant overlap with what product managers do, where the "product" they're thinking about is the technical design of a larger system. Lots of developers really do enjoy this kind of work!