[dontreact]

I think you are much more likely to get stuck in a local minima if you don't get good at reading code.

-It lets you work effectively as part of a larger team or project

-Gives you a much larger surface area of material to learn from: you can learn new patterns and libraries by seeing how other people use them instead of having to find documentation or tutorials

-Sometimes there are bugs in libraries (open source or otherwise) that you depend on. You will find these much quicker if you are good at reading code.