I wonder what the difference would be if this was posted on a designer version of hackernews.
The problem with your comment is you assume everyone can dabble in everything. When you work at a big co you are hired generally to do one thing, and that's it. Designers don't touch code. Developers don't touch designs. So while Sue may be able to do CSS, JS, Cocoa but isn't allowed anymore then Bob isn't allow to open up photoshop and start "playing color the fucking button on dibbble all day long".