Even after your comment I was willing to give the linked article the benefit of the doubt, then I came to this, 'If I type "Anyone can be a software developer"

Even after your comment I was willing to give the linked article the benefit of the doubt, then I came to this, 'If I type "Anyone can be a software developer" into Google here's the first result...'. Immediately after that he makes a declaration about the profession of "software engineering". Either the writer doesn't understand the importance of words or they aren't being intellectually honest. Replacing his query with, "Anyone can be a software engineer". The first result I get is from Quora and there is a whole range of responses. I do think there is a more nuanced argument to be made that some types of software engineering, may need regulation (air traffic control, medical devices, cars, planes, nuclear power plants) to the extent it doesn't have it already, but I don't think this article is being thoughtful enough to make it.