Sure, because software is both an art and a science and draws a lot of comparisons with music where you have to understand the technical theory, the creative an

Sure, because software is both an art and a science and draws a lot of comparisons with music where you have to understand the technical theory, the creative and also be comfortable physically playing an instrument while having some level of understanding the digital domain (MIDI etc). Software also sits at this technical/creative/implementation intersection where unless you're doing something very specific, you're going to need to push/pull in different directions. A lot of software doesn't do anything exciting, standard office CRUD, dashboards, back office tools can be banged together by a single developer as long as they can connect to a database, render a UI (web/desktop) and take requirements from the business. There's a lot of software jobs which aren't at software companies but regular businesses who just need to track something domain specific and can't afford to tender.