Well for many , their job is to prepare themselves for their next cushier , more high paying job.

Noone wants to be the drone who installs wordpress plugins.

Sure they do. For someone who is a little bit tech savvy, but not senior engineer level, there is pretty good money to be made setting up Wordpress sites and the like. This person can be an interface to the small or medium business owner who knows nothing about the interwebs but needs to get a presence online.

Alice learns that problems can be solved by changing problem scope and re-using existing tools. She ends up fighting with her customers over what they really need and fighting with her tools over what they were designed to do. Someone who isn't averse to writing code fixes the problem.

I'm not sure I agree.

You seems to be suggesting that the only way to solve a problem is to write code, and that's precisely the point that that article is trying to address; That you don't always need to write code to get something done.

It's the same reason why when you need to build a website you don't build a web server from scratch (unless you do in which case, godspeed).

Again, why do you assume that she's not averse to writing code? Why do you assume that she just forced Wordpress on people, instead of doing the same analysis that Clyde and Bob did?