[joshvince]

My experience is the opposite - you can easily guide someone on a path to learning how to code, but the 'soft' skills you mention are often impossible to change in someone: like how they interact with peers, or how they approach challenges, or how they learn. These things are infinitely harder to evaluate during interviews but have far greater impact on your impact at work, as far as I can see.

[5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV]

You're mistaking average/good developers for great ones. There is definitely a gap between those and raw coding ability at that point is the one skill that you can't teach without fundamentally changing one's mental state. Soft skills definitely have that same issue, but to a significant lesser extent

[mooreds]

The question then becomes, do you need great developers? And that depends on what you are doing.