Of course a Software engineer is paid to write code - if they're not, you probably want a different person.
Maybe we need a new job title: "Business Value Expander"
Requirements: Glue together everything else that's already been written by other people, and make the business rich.
What could possibly go wrong.
Quite the opposite! Most of the poor quality is due to excessive complexity, little care for reliability, use of too many libraries and frameworks of questionable quality. All of this comes from the idea that a developer is paid to write code.
A lot of strong engineers that I met in Amazon and elsewhere would use the minimum amount of code and libraries required and spend as much time reducing complexity and deleting other people code as writing new code.
I do analysis, planning, testing, development, client presentations and when I raise this concern with my TL I always get the 'cross-functional team' argument.
You just do everything you're asked to, in order that the business makes money - code ? Meh, anyone can do that.
How many other professions suffer the need to be 'cross-functional' ?
The "full stack developers" have got it covered