I guess the problem is my question is inherently murky. I was speaking with the assumption that specialization implies greater difficulty, greater practice, gre

I guess the problem is my question is inherently murky. I was speaking with the assumption that specialization implies greater difficulty, greater practice, greater determination, and in effect, demands greater smarts. "Generalist" is being thrown around loosely here. A really good generalist is probably a specialist in being general. In other words, a good specialist goes really, really deep, but a good generalist goes really, really broad. Both are very difficult, and after this discussion, I think a majority of programmers won't fall into either, even if they think they do.