"Architects are not real engineers/their opinion doesn't matter" is just a rephrased version of "the real developer starts at exactly my level of knowledge, but

"Architects are not real engineers/their opinion doesn't matter" is just a rephrased version of "the real developer starts at exactly my level of knowledge, but anything above is already 'incredibly good'" which I've seen, well, everywhere & all the time. IT culture has a big problem with repressed aggression and some weird & frankly speaking pretty useless type of competitiveness which leads to this type of behavior.