[TallboyOne]

That's not glamour because that's not what most people idealize.

People idealize freedom (money, traveling, time).

All things provided by programming. Or more specifically, things which can be reasonably obtained if you are a programmer.

[EliRivers]

The only special thing about programming is that you can do it remotely far more easily than, for example, chemical engineering or landscaping (on the downside, a lot of people do; the barrier to entry is low, so we get a lot of bad software). In all other respects, everything you've said applies equally to those and a million other jobs.