I like to liken it with playing an instrument. It's easy to make sounds but how long before someone will pay you to play for them? That's programming (and sports, and cooking, and any other craft that is superficially easy but deep and complex crafts to perform professionally)
I'm not missing that there are hard things and to be honest, today is a particularly difficult day, but I understand when people say it's an easy career path.
Writing, as an occupation is difficult not everyone can be a professional writer. However people can be taught writing fundamentals relatively easily.
In the same way becoming a professional programmer is difficult, learning programming fundamentals not as much. For whatever reason because of all this dissonance people think learning programming means immediately going out and developing software. Writing isn't taught by cranking out a novel.
You can go to a summer school aka a bootcamp to improve you're written English. I would not expect to become a journalist or an author or copy editor immediately afterwards. Maybe there is some dishonesty on the part of the people who run bootcamps I'm not sure...
The hardest truth is that innate talent and intelligence matters, and that some people just can't do it, while others will breeze through it.