> If deciding what to build is the hard part, why do so many product managers seem clueless?

The divide between product managers and developers mimics the artificial divide between humanities and STEM.

You divide workers into competing groups, then make they outperform each other.

In reality, practically all humans can both become excellent coders and acquire deep product skills as well. We can also learn a wide variety of other skills in a single lifetime. The only blockers on that are social and psychological, you're meant to not believe that is possible.

All this talk about code in this adversarial role with product comes from that, and all of it dissolves under almost any valid critical angle. The engagement with this kind of discussion takes place exclusively in that aforementioned social layer.

TL;DR weak bait