I am tired of seeing the word hacker being abused like this, seriously in this article it refers more to a developer or coder than a hacker, sadly the word has

I am tired of seeing the word hacker being abused like this, seriously in this article it refers more to a developer or coder than a hacker, sadly the word has lost a lot of its old meaning. Now everyone who writes code with some competence calls himself a hacker, IMHO it should be earned not self assigned. Downvote me to hell if you want, but I had to get that out of my chest.