The whole article is written about how the author wishes productivity to be, but doesn't go into analysis on how the world actualy works, and why.

These are completely unrelated things.

Wishful thinking won't make every wannabe programmer able to create every product. For a real life example, google for the articles on people failing fizzbuzz-test when applying for programming jobs. The distillation is used to separate "non-programming sheep from programming goats".