You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If you want to get paid as a developer who has to design algorithms as part of their job, you should know how to design algorithms.
Doesn't mean that pay grade is fully correlated with skill, of course. There are other industries that pay more and don't require anything like that.
Most of us are not designing algorithms, most of the time, or any of the time
Many engineers are just filling seats in places that are just in the business of sucking up talent from the market instead of having a bunch of entreprenuers running around
Doesn't mean that pay grade is fully correlated with skill, of course. There are other industries that pay more and don't require anything like that.