Where's this delusion come from recently that great engineers didnt write code?

What a load of crap.

All you're doing is describing a different job role.

What you're talking about is BA work, and a subset of engineers are great at it, but most are just ok.

You're claiming a part of the job that was secondary, and not required, is now the whole job.

I never said great engineers didn’t write code. But writing the code was never the point.

The point has always been delivering the product to the customer, in any industry. Code is rarely the deliverable.

That’s my point.