> "Let's talk", "Oops! Something went wrong..."
> ...Because writers are good at grammar and punctuation...
Struggling for relevance and failing. If that's all they can offer, they offer no value. No, it's not because I have a blind spot as a developer, but because I know my users.
That is not to say that the technical / UI writers are redundant. It's just the level of most is ridiculously low. It's like with web design: lots of providers, but only a handful of those that know what they are doing.
Heck, I'd be happy to outsource many of my content writing chores but I am yet to find a combination of functional brain, ability to analyse the tech, and sensible rates!
I know a multinational where the technical documentation department was busy copying the documentation from an internal portal (Confluence) to an external customer-facing portal. They would ask the developers to write the documentation and what parts should be copied. Amazingly, they often couldn't do even that properly. They had nice-sounding titles like "manager", "director", "analyst", etc. To the company's merit, the idiocy was eventually discontinued, but it took years.