There is no dehumanisation intended. Everyone has a place and a function. You don't let a car mechanic drive during the race, or a jet pilot do the maintenance of his plane, well same for a programmer, you don't let them make project/business related decisions, because it's neither their job nor their responsibility and most of them are inept at making decision out of their little world, that's why we have project managers, executives, &c.

I've worked in companies in which programmers were gods and decided pretty much everything, I felt like I was back in uni projects, and that's not a compliment. Tech and codebases are virtually irrelevant in most companies compared to project management end business decisions.