[gamblor956]

You can tell stories without writing.

That was how human history and "oral tradition" was passed down for thousands of years, even after the development of writing.

If anything, writing made telling stories harder because you had to start considering things other than just your words, like punctuation and spelling.

If you look at a movie, some of your bad screenplay writing can be fixed via casting. Imagine not having any hands on experience with the process, but alas, you move on to movie director because you took movie directing 101. It’s insane, design is a holistic process that requires a lot of exposure.

Most directors can't write screenplays, or even work the cameras they use to film their movies. And yet Hollywood has been doing just fine...

And for the record: there are plenty of game designers in the video game industry that can't program. They've collectively designed games that have sold tens of billions of dollars.