There’s too many dimensions to make broad claims like this and it always makes me wince a little.

In my career code was the hard part for the first few years. Then I got over the hump and everything else about my job was harder. Today code is the easiest and least interesting part. But I’ve also experienced in 13 years maybe… I’m going to say 2% of the world of professional coding. I bet if tomorrow I was asked to do some kernel optimization or make Postgres better or reverse engineer an emulator for some PLC something something, I would be deep into a land where code is the hard part.