[guggle]

> I cannot help but feel that articles like this are a subtle form of social manipulation; especially for younger, less experienced programmers.

Indeed, I'd go as far as saying this is straight up managerial tautological BS like I've heard many times.

"If the software doesn’t do what you need it to do, it’s useless.", said Captain Obvious. Well, of course it must solve the problem, but that's not enough, far from it.

And then the article promotes things like wordpress and webflow... well, I for sure know what code base I won't have to deal with when a bad plugin will break the "best code is no code" mantra.