For 2 decades, I've worked as a software developer, as well as training and coaching developers in the disciplines of software development.
Through my work and through conferences, workshops and other events, I come into contact with hundreds of software developers every year, and I get a good overview of
Also: Let’s be honest, 99.9999% of our work is not that special. It’s cookie cutter business software. There are only of handful of problems I encountered where you could argue, it would have actually required an “awesome” developer. All the others were business problems, lack of knowledge or too ambitious deadlines (thanks, sales!).
Nowadays, I’m lucky if I get more than 2h in code per day. Even if I were the best dev in the world, my company wouldn’t benefit that much.