Comment by vidarh

> Ever thought that there might be people under skyscraper that is your ego?

I do, which is exactly why I found the presumption that not spending your time doing the coding is equivalent to a disability both gross and arrogant.

> Where are they supposed to learn good design when slop takes over?

You're not learning good architecture and systems design from code. You learn good architecture and systems design from doing architecture and systems design. It's a very different discipline.

While knowing how to code can be helpful, and can even be important in narrow niches, it is a very minor part of understanding good architecture.

And, yes, I stand by the claim the coding is by far the simplest part, on the basis of having done both for longer than most developers have been doing either.