Sounds like the software execs who create addictive software but make sure their own kids don’t have a phone.

This makes sense, though. They have to be exceptionally confident in the performance of the product and work to continually improve its quality and efficiency. Many other companies can get by more just as consumers of it, but the makers of the product need some of the best coding skills available.

If they do, they're behind the curve. They don't matter anymore.

Systems design, architecture, database fundamentals, a bit of SRE. That matters. Not coding and syntax and toy problem solving with data structures and algorithms.