Your post fixates on "artistic or craft endeavour" defined as something frivolous (i.e. "fun" solutions). I disagree with the use of the word artistic (and craf

Your post fixates on "artistic or craft endeavour" defined as something frivolous (i.e. "fun" solutions). I disagree with the use of the word artistic (and craft), but the word only appears once. Intuitively, the point is development requires a lot of "design" work that is creative, an logically so; in the same way medicine is. In your bricklaying example, how does a bricklayer operate without an architect? The equivalent of laying bricks is typing characters. A developer has to decide what to type, not just type it.