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my first [uninformed] thought is that there is no external reason why they would want to

for me its typically to build a tool, or get paid + subsidize my own ventures from getting paid. my own ventures are run much cheaper because I don't need to pay a developer.

after hitting the glass ceiling doing dev work for other people, one of those coding reasons became obsolete, simultaneously this means the cost of having other devs run my software ventures is also much more practical. having devs onboarded means I can also throw random unrelated tasks at them to build the tool I imagined. I may not have any reason to want to code anymore

A kid raised at this socioeconomic level may not see a reason why they need to.

I also was never interested in coding before real world problems arose. Academic stuff, and book lessons never stuck for me.

also, yes they could simply be not interested.