Not to be snarky, but my definition of best programmers would balance these. I do spend more time than most understanding the depths of tech stacks and the brea

Not to be snarky, but my definition of best programmers would balance these. I do spend more time than most understanding the depths of tech stacks and the breadth of potentially useful ones. At the same time I strive to make software that gets the job done with only the abstractions that pay off in a short to medium timeframe. The trap avoid are those business impact folks that demonstrate an unwillingness to get better at actual programming, which ironically would increase their impact. Edit: an example is fixing a problem without understanding its cause.