"it’s a skill a large number of motivated people can pick up." Define "large number". You can have millions of programmers and it still be a small fraction of

"it’s a skill a large number of motivated people can pick up." Define "large number". You can have millions of programmers and it still be a small fraction of the population at large. Sorry to say it, but a lot of people are never going to become coders - it's our own AI systems that will bring coders down to earth, not the public at large suddenly learning to code.