@raiderrobert from my experience there’s a large nugget of truth in your generalization, but I’d comment that a lot of practitioners with dirty hands seem to hew to dogma and become well versed in doing the wrong thing righter.
There is value in having thoughtful lived experience of doing the work, but after nearly 50 years of software development I’d hold myself up as a refutation of “Doing something makes you right.“ — I hope I’m a bit less wrong and more open to coaching and alternative ideas than I used to be, but “right” I am not.