>> > Most professional developers are unable to produce code up to the standard of "the top answer in stack overflow"

> How could you possibly know that?

I worked at four multinationals and saw a bunch of their code. Most of it wasn't "the top answer in stack overflow". Was some of the code written by some of the people better than that? Sure. And a lot of it wasn't, in my opinion.

> All these types of arguments come from a belief that your fellow human is effectively useless.

Not at all. I think the top answers in stack overflow were written by humans, after all.

> It’s sad and weird.

You are entitled to your own opinion, no doubt about it.