A friend of mine sent email saying that he'd characterise it as "migration of other types of smart people into fields historically dominated by nerds" which I t

A friend of mine sent email saying that he'd characterise it as "migration of other types of smart people into fields historically dominated by nerds" which I think I agree with, and matches what you're saying. I just want to make sure that people recognise stereotypes for what they are, and maybe to steer a few people who might otherwise consider one of the stereotypes as something to aspire to towards that finding your own personal path among the varied possibilities. If anything, I think finding out in the long run that this article was entirely unnecessary would be my favourite possible outcome, but I suspect sadly that "mostly unnecessary eventually" is the best we're going to get.