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> Domain-specific knowledge, having no relation to software engineering per se, is a necessary skill set.

In other words, you wasted time and energy becoming a programmer/software developer/whatever.

Should have done something else.

This is only true if you weren't paid for your work all those years (which, then, it was just a hobby).

But more importantly, this is only relevant for vomiting boilerplate code. I don't know about you but I always did a lot more than that.