I share your disdain for "Software Architects." I'm curious on your reasoning though. Can you expand on why you hold disdain for "Software Architects"?
For me, regarding the ones who don't actively code, it's something along the lines of "everything compiles on a whiteboard."
It really comes down to the tenets I posted above from Amazon. At MS there was a propensity for folks in these roles to just pontificate. We called them "Architecture Astronauts". As an example, they were rarely practitioners (they rarely wrote code).