I don’t think the distinction is necessarily unique to software. To run with the physics/particle accelerators analogy, someone still has to build and run CERN

I don’t think the distinction is necessarily unique to software. To run with the physics/particle accelerators analogy, someone still has to build and run CERN, and plenty of talent is needed to make CERN possible, many of whom are probably physicists of a different “tribe”. We may all learn similar fundamentals and take different views on the “right way” to look at our craft, but for better or worse we’re tied together by shared knowledge.