To clarify, knowing how to code is the difference, not so much coding itself. Making decisions in a software company without coding experience and knowledge of

To clarify, knowing how to code is the difference, not so much coding itself. Making decisions in a software company without coding experience and knowledge of technical concepts is a huge bottleneck, imho, because there is a back-and-forth between technical workers and non-technical decision makers. If decision makers had the same coding experience this would be much smoother, and in my experience many stakeholders would easily be changing code in their products if they could.