Its cheap to write some code, but still big software projects cost massive amounts of cash, take forever and are often a failure. There are visible bugs or at l

Its cheap to write some code, but still big software projects cost massive amounts of cash, take forever and are often a failure. There are visible bugs or at least big missteps in design in literally all software I use - Windows OS, Office, browsers and specific webs like ebanking, desktop apps. I dare say making software work well consistently is not a skill thats easy to acquire. Also "solve important business problems at scale" - thats an extremely narrow mostly SV-based view on how most software out there is built, no company I ever worked for in past 20 years across 3 countries ever needed that from me nor anybody around. I'd say a junior view but that would ruffle some feathers. Seniors talk about team and client and budget communication, processes, delivery pipelines, support etc. Lets put it this way - real world is a tad more complex than your simplification make it look like.