The video is clearly meant to be inspiring. A lot of people think programming is too hard for them or not accessible at all, but that's simply not true.

It's worth inspiring them to give themselves a shot. Of course, not everyone will be good at it, like all things, but it's better to try it out and find out.

It's horrible to say to someone, "Hey there, coding is actually pretty hard, and while there are some really great perks to knowing it, you'll probably fail at getting there, and even if you don't fail, you might not end up at the place that has all of the awesome perks, just some of them, so you basically shouldn't even try."

That's clearly an exaggeration of what he's saying in the article, but I'm sick of professional programmers trying to discourage non-programmers from trying out coding. It can only be a good thing for them to learn a little, so let them have dreams even if they aren't totally realistic. Who knows, many of them may reach them.