> programming at all professional levels must be easy for everyone, else you are a gatekeeper I've literally never heard anybody say this. Best I can tell it's

> programming at all professional levels must be easy for everyone, else you are a gatekeeper I've literally never heard anybody say this. Best I can tell it's a straw-man the author has stood up. Part of the problem is the ambiguity of the words "easy" and "hard", which would be a valid discussion to have, but the OP didn't really seem interested in that aspect, and chose instead to interpret things in the least-charitable way possible.