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Agree completely.

You are simply not a well-rounded programmer if you can't architect an application / piece of functionality to do whatever it needs to do.

Designating someone to be the architect just causes strife / encourages 'normal developers' to shut up about architecture because there is no credit to be made.

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Yep! And the "architect" is forced to strive for credit, because nobody is really in the position to evaluate their work results. At the best, it results in self-promotion like found in this article. At worst, it involves claiming credit for everything that goes well, while blaming "those developers" (and their failure to obey the architect's dictums) for any and all problems.

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