[stuxnet79]

From my experience everything you have mentioned is 100% true. However, I can understand why there'd be many skeptics here because it's a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of techies who've devoted their life and a huge part of their identity to 'tinkering'.

Politics is an inescapable aspect of success in 'meatspace'. Socializing and being able to build a network easily is absolutely valuable and it's not something that comes easily in this industry (surprisingly enough). Combining that with passable technical skills will carry his son much farther than if he was a shut-in who could spit out algos in Rust on command.