I agree with you, those are absolutely fundamental. The bar should be set higher though, especially for senior engineers.

https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/04/10/dont-hire-top-talen...

This is why I stress the importance of culture. I got into engineering because I loved coding, I loved problem solving, I loved writing programs and making things happen on the screen. It's so easy for the team sport aspect of software engineering to become a blindspot if it's something you're not interested in.

What about candidate.can_work_in_a_team? Or follows_requirements_instead_of_doing_their_own_thing? It's a huge problem and there are so many difficult personalities out there that one has to look at "culture" and personality.