Yes. And yet, everyone glosses over how difficult it is to learn to program. Its a different way of thinking. Learning to program is like learning to write good fiction. Or learning to make art. Lots of folks - for no fault of their own - will never achieve mastery. But by never telling those stories, people end up blaming themselves for not being good enough. The reality is you can't dump a 60yo ex-miner into a coding bootcamp for 3 months and expect him to be employable. And if you try, and he (predictably) fails, failure isn't his burden to carry.

I suspect a lot of people who complain about technical interviews do so as cover for struggling to be good enough at programming to be hireable. I think we need to take the stigma away from that - its ok to find programming hard. Honestly, that makes you a more normal person. It doesn't say anything about your work ethic or your value as a human. And its not a failure to choose another career.