I don't see why programmers generally think writing is unrelated to programming. In the transition from logic gates, to machine codes, to assembly, to higher l

I don't see why programmers generally think writing is unrelated to programming. In the transition from logic gates, to machine codes, to assembly, to higher level languages like C, Java, Perl, Python.. the evolution is most often towards an abstraction or syntax closer to natural language. And if the software industry prefers programming languages that at least superficially resemble natural languages, shouldn't it be obvious that we should actually start with the presumption that, the skills that make one good at writing (natural languages) can translate to skills writing programming languages? I've seen otherwise great engineers who write illegible code (that works). Their written language skills are often not that great either.