Good, marketers and salesmen are basically middle-men who skim from everyone's success. Our current economy favors these types, but we need to move past that.
But given how the marketers at your company seem to be behaving, I understand your frustration.
But look at Steve Jobs: the ULTIMATE marketer if there ever was one. Or Mark Benioff, another brilliant marketer. Would you accuse them of skimming?
My experience has been that marketing in a 'normal' organisation is that they expend a lot of time and effort trying to sell a product that's just not that good or innovative. I think that's where the whole 'lipstick on a pig' analogy comes into play, and also where people's inherent distrust for anyone in marketing/advertising stems from.
Marketing has taken ad networks and ad to sale attribution, and turned it into "we are going to sell all our customer's data and every click so marketing can claim revenue."
Beyond that, sounds like you're blaming sales & marketing for customers not being willing to pay for your code.
Ever thought that just maybe the issue is your code?
But this is exactly what the author highlighted in the article and Suster in his tweet. It's hard to find people who don't suck at it.
We don't sell or auction off our data because that would not be in the interest of our customers. Admittedly it can be confusing for sales reps from companies who want to put ads on our site when I explain why we wouldn't sell out our customers like that, so we are probably not the norm.
As a marketer it is frustrating when things are done that harm the reputation of the profession just as i imagine many engineers hate bad actors who write malware or people who write basic CRUD apps, talk it up, and give the impression that software engineering is overly simple.