In my experience as a DevOps transformation expert, 'Architects' are mostly old devs that have been kicked upstairs. The whole world changes each year to an extreme. You have to get your feet wet.
House - some do, some don't.
Commercial Building - yep.
Factory, Bridge or Infrastructure - you're insane if you don't.
Just like in construction, it depends on what you are building/expanding. Not all software is the same.
Sometimes the system doesn't need it sometimes it does. Not all software systems are the same.
I personally think the architect role is to look at the big picture first rather than trying to dictate the minutiae.
A structural architect is called the same, but is not really comparable. Apples and oranges. At the least because the Burj Khalifa is still built under the same physics model as they used 100 years ago.