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, 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.
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.