This is actually quite an insightful comment into the mindset of the tech set vs. the many writers and artists whose only 'boilerplate redundant code' is the language itself, and a loose aggregate of ideas and philosophies.

Probably the original sin here is that we started calling them programming languages instead of just 'computer code'.

Also - most of your work is far more than mere novelty! There are intangibles like your intellectual labor and time.