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You’re right. And it wasn’t my intent to editorialize (to imply I feel one way or the other about the subject.) But I can read how an opinion could be inferred. Anyway, my actual opinion is that people like us tend to be more useful than not, but also it definitely takes people with more specialized knowledge to make progress with some organization goals. For example, at my current role we have a team of people with a much deeper background in mathematics (we’re in the financial sector), algorithms, and computer science in general. Due to a life event, I dropped out of my computer science degree towards the end of my second year, and ended up pulling myself through operations roles (which I typically found comparatively boring) until I landed in DevOps after a lot of open source work and networking. But I am not as strong as some of my peers in mathematics, algorithms, and computer science topics (what is a big/little endian lol?)

Anyway, cheers. In short, I agree with your take.