> I could give a crap about someone's deep algorithim knowledge.
That's just proving the point of the person that you replied to, though. If you could give a crap then you obviously care about it.
Often the people who know the algorithms struggle to write maintainable code that isn’t esoteric garbage to everyone but them and will fight to the death to say their way is correct. So your mileages may vary...
Granted, there should be 1-3 people around who can be tapped for algo knowledge when bottlenecks need to be addressed. However the rest of the dev team just needs to worry about productionizeable code...