St. John's perspective is, to be blunt, idiotic. I work in the game industry, and being effective as a programmer involves a lot of people skills and a lot of communication with other disciplines. It doesn't matter how technically brilliant you are if you can't sell people on your ideas or communicate effectively. If you were to go out of your way to hire emotionally stunted young people like St. John suggests you'd just end up with a miserable place to work.