This seems hard to believe from my experience. I am friends with around 15 UX designers, and acquaintances with around 30 more, many of which are at top compani

This seems hard to believe from my experience. I am friends with around 15 UX designers, and acquaintances with around 30 more, many of which are at top companies like Uber, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM. None of them know how to code to my knowledge, other than some basic HTML, CSS and jQuery, which they primarily use to build portfolio websites for themselves. Anecdotal and small sample size, yes, but these people are certainly having no trouble "surviving" in design.