Yes, because you need to have a feel for the quality and direction of the systems your organisation is building and maintaining, independently of the people you have dominance over. Because that hierarchical relation itself will make it hard for them to accurately communicate to you how it's going and the more time you make them spend explaining things to you instead of cooperating with each other, the worse for the team that actually gets stuff done.

You should also keep using programming and automation to perform managerial tasks and not degenerate into constantly droning away in some mind-numbing office software suite.