> If you had actually thought through what you were doing, it was a few min to fill it all out.

... for people who are native speakers of English.

Software engineering is a highly collaborative process. To be successful you need to be pretty good at reading and writing whatever language the team is using. I've worked with plenty of non-native speakers who were well above the average I see for natives. In the last 10 years I found the level of just basic writing for new Jr engineers has really fallen.

If you can't write, you can't think