You just describe the complete and utter failure of Nerdistan: While the nerds solve their problems by writing software that caters for their nerd-needs (version control, editors, fluffy frameworks just yo name a few) , the rest of the world should just learn to program themselves when they want to solve their problems ...

There is a way out of this echo chamber though: don't teach others to program but let them teach you about their field.

A software industry who only caters for itself (the "scratch your own itch" fallacy) is irrelevant. How many Basecamps do you need?