I'm not taking sides on this, but I wanted to point out that you do make this claim: "Do Americans (or more generally, programmers in the states) write better software because they're more closely in touch with the tech industry?"

Are Americans more closely in touch with the tech industry? I don't know what this is based on, but I'd like to see the metric compared to other countries, such as Japan.

I can't tell, because the grammar is sufficiently vague, if your claim is that American software is better, or that Americans are more in touch with the tech industry, but it surely seems like one or the other.