Well, yes, and I've done that plenty myself haha I have the impression that many of us programmers have a hard time really accepting that different application

Well, yes, and I've done that plenty myself haha I have the impression that many of us programmers have a hard time really accepting that different applications of programming require vastly different skillsets, so we often underestimate how hard things can be. For example, a software developer of 15 years probably doesn't have almost any of the necessary skills to make a new database server.