> If you've been leaning hard on programming and lack the people skills to join the business class, that's on you.

where did i say that I've been solely leaning hard on programming and not focusing on the people skill?

I didn't say you did. But the industry is full of people with technical acumen but little in the way of people skills or a knack for business needs; and in the supposedly halcyon days of the past many of them could grow rich, or at least popular, by developing something cool. These people are going to have a very bad time.