That's like saying that words are trivial to write, so books have no value. While it's trivial to write an "if", it's not trivial to know how to write a lot of

That's like saying that words are trivial to write, so books have no value. While it's trivial to write an "if", it's not trivial to know how to write a lot of "ifs" to make an IA that people find useful. And that knowledge is where the value of software resides.