Re-reading they indeed didn’t say “chronic pain”, that was me extrapolating. However I think it’s still relatively safe to assume “hand problems” prevalent enough to prevent them from typing code for many years to be both painful and chronic.
You're right. I misread it. I'd hate to lose my ability to type and jump at the chance to be able to use a computer again.
You're right, and problems were chronic and painful and as I said elsewhere, have mutated over the past 30 odd years. Speech recognition error misrecognized 30 years as 3 years.