Not a pure people manager - managers with a background of coding are important so they won't swallow BS, can understand tradeoffs between e.g. refactoring vs ac

Not a pure people manager - managers with a background of coding are important so they won't swallow BS, can understand tradeoffs between e.g. refactoring vs accepting tech debt to get a feature finished quickly, etc., understand the reliability or otherwise of dev estimates, etc. But few strong developers are also strong people managers. The two attributes seldom overlap. And I think being good with people is more important in a manager than being good with code.