Why does this matter as long as you're serving your team as needed? That should mean you're fully capable of doing anything from writing good quality code to g

Why does this matter as long as you're serving your team as needed? That should mean you're fully capable of doing anything from writing good quality code to going to bat for them in a meeting, writing documentation, SSHing into a VM to put out a fire, etc. A senior dev should have done plenty of that before getting promoted to senior just not all at once. What's special about writing code and why are some people so afraid of "forgetting how to code"? No offense to anyone but sounds like a load of bs to me from someone who isn't ready and works at a place where that promotion is forced due to lack of choice.