"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

Senko Rašić pushes back on the claim that coding is easy and the real challenge is figuring out what to build. If coding were trivial, why the high salaries, burnout, and books like Clean Code? If product decisions were the hard part, why aren't PMs and business analysts treated like rockstars? He argues both extremes are cope. The industry is undergoing tectonic change—developers need to care about the craft and the customer, not pick one.

Why it matters: Sharp opinion with emotional punch, but lacks first-hand experiments or data, staying at the rhetorical level. H and R both hit, K didn't, so it lands right at the featured threshold.