Agreed, I see a lot of the type of people you're describing on here.

That type are called "engineers". I used to interview them and I didn't care if they knew anything about the business.

Large codebases are the most complex things we have ever worked on and can easily become unmaintainable. I wanted people who really cared about code quality and consistency in order to offset this.

I think that it would be even more important to hire people like that now and even though we will need less programmers there were never enough of that type to go around anyway.