[noosphr]

The issue is that code isn't clothing. It's the clothing factory. We aren't artisans sewing clothing. We're production engineers deciding on layouts for robots to make clothes most efficiently.

I see this type error of thinking all the time. Engineers don't make objects of type A, we make functions of type A -> B or higher order.

[atomicnature]

Go concrete. In FAANG engineering jobs now what % is this factory designer category vs what % is writing some mundane glue code, moving data around in CRUD calls, or putting in a monitoring metric etc?

Once you look at the present engineering org compositions see what's the error in thinking.

There are other analogy issues in your response which I won't nitpick

[noosphr]

Production egineers don't design the looms in a weaving factory either.