This parallels much of the photography community, there are people who know every technical aspect and could talk for days about what f-stop/shutter speed to us

This parallels much of the photography community, there are people who know every technical aspect and could talk for days about what f-stop/shutter speed to use in certain circumstances etc.. And then there are people who go out and take beautiful photos of beautiful things. The point is Photography is not about equipment "I can't take that photo without this lens" it's about photos you can take. Programming is not about Languages and Code structure it's about making something useful using the knowledge you have (Twitter could have been made with PHP or Python or any number of other languages, it still would have been "Twitter") Heck look at PG and Viaweb, none of the users cared that it was made with Clisp just that it did what they needed it to do.