You're entirely missing my point - for 99% of the population of this planet, producing software is going to forever remain beyond their reach. You can give them

You're entirely missing my point - for 99% of the population of this planet, producing software is going to forever remain beyond their reach. You can give them all the freedom to do so that you wish, they are still going to remain incapable of actually doing so. Why? If you said that, for 99% of the population of this planet, literacy is forever out of reach, you'd be rightly laughed out of the room. The increasing importance and preeminence of software in every system we interact with means that programming is a new form of literacy and numeracy. Not only can the 99% code, but, increasingly, they must. They must, in order to assert control over the software that increasingly controls them.