People who view programming as implementation-oriented grunt work (this describes a surprisingly high percentage of those who are smart enough that they "should

People who view programming as implementation-oriented grunt work (this describes a surprisingly high percentage of those who are smart enough that they "should" be able to program) have no interest in becoming good at it. Sucking at programming means that it never becomes anything more than grunt work for them, and before they become decent at it, they have enough authority to delegate their coding. It doesn't help that they're trapped in C++ and an environment that rewards guts-'n'-glory over finely crafted code.