Right, just like telescope building is about making lenses and hollow tubes, astronomy is about looking at the sky and keying into the functionality that was implemented by telescope makers.
I believe you would benefit from a different perspective because this vision is partial at best. The distinction between who builds system and tools and who uses them is subtle and often these roles are interchangeable. Both have dignity and purpose and contribute to the goal, regardless of the collar color, which is a remnant of the last century.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
That is no different from people who call themselves “software architects”. You can’t build great software architectures if you don’t know how to build and optimize the underlying architecture it runs on and how to build the pipelines that put the code on those systems.
I believe you would benefit from a different perspective because this vision is partial at best. The distinction between who builds system and tools and who uses them is subtle and often these roles are interchangeable. Both have dignity and purpose and contribute to the goal, regardless of the collar color, which is a remnant of the last century.
Galileo built his own telescopes.